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...fellowship, which became active last spring organized and sponsored a conference, entitled "Waging Peace," on the subject of nuclear disarmament. At the conference last April, John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity and George Rupp Div School death, addressed 800 people from all over NEw England. Now the Rev. Larry M. Hill, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe United Ministry. Is working with a local group of religious educators on another disarmament conference planned for this spring...
...Reagan budget is approved, University of Michigan's financial aid director, Harvey Grotrian, predicts, at least 10% of undergraduates may be forced to drop out. U.C.L.A. expects federal aid to students, which now runs to $50 million a year, to be cut by about half. The University of Texas at Austin asked 10,000 recipients of financial aid what they would do without federal support. Says Financial Aid Officer Pat Korbus: "Some parents said they would dig into their savings or retirement accounts. Others indicated their children would have to drop out or go to school part-time...
...Harvey Fierstein
Several things are wrong with this evening of one-acters: it is too long (more than four hours with intermissions); it is often inconsistent; and for embarrassingly long periods it becomes as mawkish as an afternoon soap opera. But what is right about it is absolutely right. Playwright Harvey Fierstein has created characters so vivid and real that they linger in the mind, talking the night away, long after the lights have been turned out and everyone has left off-Broadway's Actors Playhouse...
...show up in feelings of worthlessness. Rage, sadly, often crops up in the form of destructive behavior-wife beating, child abuse, neglect of friends, drunkenness-that increases predictably among the jobless. (In a study of the social effects of unemployment over a 34-year period, S ociologist M. Harvey Brenner of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found that a 1% increase in the national unemployment rate was associated with a 4.1% increase in the suicide rate and increases of 3.4% in admissions to state mental hospitals, 4% in state prison admissions and 5.7% in the homicide rate...