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...Peter Ferrara's article on the United Farmworkers in Monday's Crimson contains a number of important factual misrepresentations and misleading statements which should be corrected...
...Farmworkers were averaging $4.50 to $5.50 an hour with piece work before there was any union." According to the Department of Agriculture, median daily earnings of full time farmworkers (those working on farms for over 150 days a year) were only $10.90 in 1970. Mr. Ferrara's claim that UFW statistics come from averaging full and part time workers' annual wages is simply not true. Malcolm Lovell, Assistant Secretary of Labor, has testified that the average Chicano family of six, all working full time in the fields, makes $3,350 a year--hardly Mr. Ferrara...
...discoverer of Giuseppe (The Leopard) Lampedusa, Bassani is best known in the U.S. for his lambent novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis from which the recent Vittoria De Sica film was made. Like Garden, this book is set in the author's native city of Ferrara during the 1930s. Also as in Garden, the narrator of Behind the Door is a wealthy, sensitive young...
...Three Dimensional Exhibition. Works of John Caldwell. Lee Ferrara. Walter Ganshorn, Vivian Richman, Marlis Schratter and Sarah Westlake, selected in competition by Albert Alcalay of Harvard's Carpenter Center, and Michio Ihara and Gyorgy Kepes of MIT's Center of Advanced Visual Design. CAMBRIDGE ART ASSOCIATION. Daily 10:30 to 5. Sunday through Saturday...
...rises almost to the surreal. To the swelling of a chanted exhortation to "Pray for all of us who fell at the hands of murderers in Dachau, Auschwitz and Treblinka...," De Sica leaves the scene of Micol's proud resignation to look one last time at the dome of Ferrara's synagogue, the implied emptiness beneath her tiled roofs, and a rusty padlock on the gate to the garden of the Finzi-Continis. With a camera eye that has treated two oranges on the luggage rack of a grimy train compartment with as much artistic respect as the baroque splendor...