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...more and more blacks are achieving the American dream of lifting themselves into the middle class. They have become as well heeled, well housed, and well educated as their white counterparts. Many have just arrived in the middle class, some are barely hanging on, some may lose their grip-but by any reasonable measurement, most appear there to stay. They have shown that, reports of its demise to the contrary, upward mobility still operates in America...
...administration pleased. Board results (again) showed, administrators said, that the curriculum change had undone Harvard's grip on first place. In two fields, Harvard students had slipped to 10th and 15th place in the country on the boards--much to the administration's embarrassment. The only first-year course that had not been diluted by the influx of clinicians after the 1968 curriculum change was Biochemistry. Student scores there stayed...
Actually, a bit of evangelistic flair could prove useful in a church that is steadily losing its historical grip on the nation. Although the Church of England claims a baptized membership of 28 million people,* only 2.6 million are active enough to vote on parish affairs, and a mere 1.8 million worship at Easter. An equally important sign of church malaise is the declining interest in church work. Only 373 men entered the ministry in 1973, compared with 636 ten years before...
Richard, in fact, is well past jagged recollections of Meg's ominous girlhood and into an account of her relapse-which brings a return to the asylum-before the reader, by now totally in the grip of the author, really admits that Richard the good may in fact be Richard the bad, a brother whose sexual advances perhaps drove Sister Meg insane in the first place. Thereafter, as Meg is re-examined and taken away in a straitjacket, the book erupts with dramatic clues that flare backward and forward through the narrative like thin, ignited trains of gunpowder, creating...
...figures on them--and, besides, Bok had Harvard send Stephen B. Farber '63, his special assistant, to bring back a report and cheer Angola up even more. As if that still wasn't enough, Bok announced that he was personally offended by American policies which indirectly strengthened Portugal's grip on its colonies, and appealed to PALC to "join with me in finding a co-operative way of calling attention to the wrongs of Angola...