Word: halls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 4700 undergraduates will flood Memorial Hall today to officially register for the last term of the 1970s...
Margaret E. Law, registrar for the College, said yesterday it is difficult to predict exactly how many students will put in an appearance at Memorial Hall...
Which brings us to, or leaves us with, Kevin "I-built-Quincy-Market" White. White, a benevolent-looking, white-haired man who will turn 50 the day of the preliminary election, has commanded the troops in City Hall for the past 12 years. Is White a glutton for punishment? The mayor, his aides whisper in your ear, has led the city through the worst of times (i.e. the civil war to desegrate the city's schools) and now wants to guide his city into the 1980's. White is seeking an unprecedented fourth term in office and, if enough people...
...election, in keeping with tradition, is basically a referendum on White and his three-term record. Corruption, the shining issue in the Watergate-on-the-Charles atmosphere of 1975, has faded away; only one candidate still supports the ides of a new watchdog unit to oversee activities in City Hall. "If integrity was the issue in 1975," says one city insider, "leadership is the issue this year." The natural issue for this election was "time for a change." But for the majority of Bostonians, King is too much of a change and Finnegan stupidly got caught with his hand...
Price's gifts seem, to American ears, peculiarly English, and that may be one reason American ears have not been as responsive as the music merits. He brings rock to the music hall, overlays it with suggestions of '50s club jazz and well-shaken pop, and comes up with a sound that seems to fall between any two stations on your radio dial. You can drift easily along with an aged-in-wood Price ballad like i Love You Too and nearly not hear the scalding observation "Love only lasts until believers leave us" stashed between choruses like...