Word: harrington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preliminary, Harvard's freshman team eeked out a 111-30 victory over Brandeis. (No, that's not a misprint). The Crimson has six players over 6-5 and scads of former All-State high school stars. Coach George Harrington was able to put in his second and third teams without harming the Crimson attack...
...volume art library. For the new sculpture court, Sir Jacob Epstein's widow gave six of his busts, including one of Somerset Maugham. Soon the Far Eastern gallery will put on display a distinguished collection of Han-dynasty pottery, on extended loan. Donald DeCoursey Harrington, a gas and oil investor living in Texas, has donated 47 paintings from Boudin to Vuillard that make the museum's survey of French art its most vital collection...
...disturbed that the saying "Michael Harrington discovered poverty, and Lyndon Johnson bought it" seems to be coming true. We are for a real war on poverty. It is true that capitalism, will not make poor people rich, or even comfortable and that the only real answer to the problems of poverty (sweat shops, lack of skills, technological unemployment, etc.) is a socialist society where the resources are used in the interest of all, not just of a small capitalist class. Nevertheless, the war on poverty is important in our immediate struggles...
...order to foil the BRA, John Harrington, President of SHOC, Self-Help Organization Charlestown, called for a defeat of pro-renewal City Council members, and the enactment of a law that would allow a neighborhood to veto an urban renewal project...
...without the poor. Would they be missed? After all, the poor provide often beneficial political ferment and a useful troubling of the sluggish conscience. The ancient prophets, and a great many modern ones, were kept in business largely by the poor. In his new book, The Accidental Century, Michael Harrington speculates that "there could be a new, unimpoverished political equivalent of the poor," composed of middle-class people threatened in their jobs by automation and cybernation...