Word: eisenstadt
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Boston School Committee Chairman Thomas S. Eisenstadt, who had his banquet last month in South Boston's Blinstrub's Village, is typical of most of the politicians who will have to resort to fund-raising dinners this year...
...Eisenstadt, who is 30 years old and a lawyer, serves on the School Committee which is gradually being emasculated; it no longer controls its own budget and it no longer can pick school sites or construct school buildings. Most of its real power, like that of the City Council, has passed to the Mayor. Few people give serious attention to the members of the School Committee or the Council, primarily because they can do very little. Eisenstadt, to be sure, has a following but it exists only in his own neighborhood...
Nevertheless, Eisenstadt's fund-raising dinner was large and successful. The committee of friends which sponsored it used an interesting ploy to insure its success. A week or two before the dinner Eisenstadt sent out invitations to each Boston Public School. The letters revealed that a certain number of places at the banquet had been reserved for school department personnel from that building. The committee explained that it took such steps because it knew that the employees would want to take part in the "wonderful evening of entertainment" planned -- nearly all the tickets were sold...
...selected movies, Ackerman continued, will be used for scholarly research rather than commercial exhibition. Students will be able to use individual films for writing honors theses and will also be able to make comparative studies of films by great directors such as Eisenstadt, Fellini, and Houston...
...assigned by the School Committee to work with the Joint Center. For the last four weeks he has helped them prepare the final draft of the report. His testimony was thus particularly significant and ended the hopes of the School Committee's liberal wing--led by Chairman Thomas S. Eisenstadt--that some of the redistricting suggestions could be incorporated into a comprehensive imbalance plan...