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...Florentine Union, a civic group which annually sponsors a series of cultural and historic celebrations in May, this year decided to pay tribute to Harvard's contributions to Florentine culture. On May 18 a special plaque will be put on the house used by professor James Russell Lowell when he did his studies on Dante in the mid-nineteenth century. In addition, a committee of dignitaries headed by the mayor of the city will make an official visit to the University's Center for Italian Renaissance Culture at Villa I Tatti...
...Humes, 36, a founder of the Paris Review and the author of two books, Underground City and Men Die, is a New Yorker who was trained as a scientist at M.I.T. and whose interests include cosmological theory, civic reform in Manhattan, and the feasibility of selling houses made of paper. Humes's novels have excesses that mark them recognizably as first and second books, but they are rich with life and intelligence. Underground City, set in France during the Resistance and the early postwar days, is, notably, the only novel in memory that achieves both dignity and passion...
Representatives from Boston civic groups, newspapers, police and the mayor's office clashed over questions involving police-community relations at a panel discussion in the Arlington Street Unitarian-Universalist Church last night...
...civic groups (led by CORE and the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union) last week formed a Citizens Council on Police Practices. The prime order of business for the Council is to urge reforms in the procedures of the Boston Police Review Board. This is a good first step, and the Council's efforts should be supported by citizens who are concerned about this aspect of government activity...
...high time for ballet in Washington," Franklin says. "We're going to become a truly resident ballet by taking a part in civic affairs. It's an uphill fight in a town that has not been exposed to much ballet, but we'll just have to push the citizens along a little. Why not? I think they're ready to be pushed...