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...only be continued but expanded where possible, and that four of the five members of the Cambridge Rent Board should be tenants. Such a program would have two-fold effect, he contends: taking apartments "off the markets, as if they were commodities," and ending what Solano calls "sheer greed" on the part of the landlords...
...identical with the subject matter of the lush advertisements that surround his New Yorker articles. His articles are peopled with abundant heroes and few villains; his characters are proof that all over the world there are nice people who are friendly and unprepossessing and do good things. Ambition and greed and complexity and tragedy play little part in McPhee's reassuring world...
Racism and Greed. If ever pop music claimed a child prodigy, it was young Gladys Knight. When she was four, her eager contralto, frequently on key, resonated through the adult ranks of Atlanta's Mt. Moriah Baptist Church choir. Three years later she won the $2,000 first prize on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour with a humid rendition of Too Young. When another cousin, James ("Pip") Wood heard Gladys and the boys sing, he encouraged them to turn professional and gave them his nickname. In 1954 they were booked into Atlanta's Royal Peacock Supper...
...veteran of the road by the time she was 13, Gladys had learned how to press clothes under hotel mattresses as well as to avoid drug pushers and to cope with racism and greed. Before every concert the four teen-agers joined hands in a prayer circle, a ritual they continue to observe. Small-town promoters quickly spotted their vulnerability. Once after they had given two performances in Paducah, Ky., the promoter pulled out a gun and refused to pay. Says Gladys: "There was nothing we could do except leave in a hurry because we were peace-loving people...
...really understand what the author meant by this play, you have to know more than the facts of her life--you have to know the perspective from which she wrote it. This was the perspective of the wise adolescent who had begun to see the black humor in the greed and the cheating and the family quarreling at the Sunday dinner table...