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Died. Daniel L. Marsh, 88, president of Boston University from 1926 to 1951, chancellor since 1951, and architect of B.U.'s development into a first-rank center of learning; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Crusty, often controversial in matters not relating to education, Marsh was a fervent advocate of Prohibition, believed that because of TV "we are destined to have a nation of morons." There was no argument about the near miracle he worked at B.U., where he took a moldering collection of brownstones for 9,600 students in 1926 and built a multiversity that today boasts 23,000 students...
Ending up the week as the guest of Governor Louie Nunn at the Kentucky Derby, Nixon had every reason for cheer. At the half mile, he himself was way out in front and could afford the luxury of a fervent appeal to party unity. Republicans must at all cost, he said, avoid the "deep division that would come from choosing up sides-civil war, bloodletting, cannibalism, call it what you will...
...considerable hold on older, middle-class Negroes when he went before 5,000 delegates to the African Methodist Episcopal Church's quadrennial session. Applause interrupted his speech 66 times as Humphrey promised to formulate "a new and complete national commitment to human rights." The hall resounded with the fervent cries of an old-time revivalist meeting and Humphrev, the old political evangelist, joined the crowd in sineine We Shall Overcome...
...much, with some of the purplest prose apotheosizing America written since the rhetorical mauve of Thomas Wolfe ("Brood on that country who expresses our will. She is America, once a beauty of magnificence unparalleled . . . tender mysterious bitch"). For the most part, his genuine wit and bellicose charm, and his fervent and intense sense of legitimately caring, render The Armies of the Night an artful document, worthy to be judged as literature...
Nothing has angered the community more than the condescension of white professionals or their attempts to impose solutions on Roxbury's problems. The anger is not mindless. It stems from a fervent conviction that white, suburban intellectuals can't change the ghetto if they haven't lived it. "The community people," says James R. Reed, Executive Secretary of the New School for Children, almost pleading, "would be the last people in the world to tell the professionals 'we don't need you.' The problem starts when he ignores the kind of competence we have...they have got to believe...