Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are some small ways to escape into a world more harmonious than Cambridge, or a time less threatening than Reading Period. Upstairs at the Fogg, Orazio Gentileschi's Madonna With the Sleeping Christ Child (a recent acquisition) shines with that inexplicable inner light of Caravaggio, Gentileschi's master. And in a small back gallery on the first floor of the museum the Heinz Gotze Exhibit of Japanese Art exemplifies the peculiarly Oriental process of passing from the seen to the unseen. The paintings and calligraphy make a pictorial poetry which Ezra Pound described as "the ideal language...
Legal Loophole. The case was initiated in 1966 by Dorothy Gautreaux -who died in 1969-and five other blacks. They sued the Chicago Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for perpetuating segregation by building low-cost apartment complexes for blacks almost exclusively in inner-city black neighborhoods. The plaintiffs subsequently argued that the housing units should have been built instead in the white-dominated wards of Chicago or in the suburbs that lie just outside the city. In reply, HUD claimed that since the suburbs were not accused of practicing segregation, the Federal Government...
...violated their basic constitutional rights. "The real hope," said Polikoff, "is that HUD will take the cue from the court and, on a voluntary basis, pass out their dollars to developers in metropolitan areas." The resulting housing projects, he continued, should be accessible to people from the inner city...
...Supreme Court pointed out, HUD does have the power right now to support low-cost housing in the suburbs that could attract inner-city minority groups. Under a provision, known as Section 8, of the 1974 housing law, HUD subsidizes the rent paid by low-income families who live in new, renovated or existing housing. But in this fiscal year, only a small portion of the 325,000 dwelling units under the program are housing families from minority groups in predominantly white areas...
...outward form, David Rabe's trilogy of military plays, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones, and now Streamers, appears to be about the brutalizing effect of army life and the scourge of Viet Nam on the U.S. conscience. In inner content, they are more like detonations of the individual psyche -a simple soul goes berserk...