Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That social goal was achieved at the cost of great disruption: the inner-city whites, many of Irish or Italian descent, resented what they viewed as upper- class suburban values imposed on them. Black children were unprepared for the surge in hostility, and the schools were turned into fortresses. As Lukas dramatically illustrates, small pieces of neighborhood turf became battlefields, while children's chances for self-improvement slipped away. The travail of Boston's leaders was amply reported at the time, but Lukas' account focuses on the impoverished participants in the social experiment, black and white...
...author shrewdly uses the dilemmas of leadership as counterpoint to three narratives of Bostonians who suffered through the school battles. The Twymons are a fatherless, churchgoing black family of seven, dependent on public assistance. Alice McGoff is an Irish Catholic widow of a blue-collar worker; she and her seven children live in public housing in the ethnically isolated Charlestown section. Colin and Joan Diver are white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, motivated by liberal compassion. They see themselves and their two sons as "urban pioneers" in the integrated South End, the husband working in city and state government, the wife directing...
...Harvard junior varsity heavyweight crew was not as lucky. The j.v. boat was beaten Saturday in Henley's second most important race for eights, the Ladies Challenge Plate, losing in the quarterfinals by a half-length to a formidable Irish crew, Garda Siochana...
...Thomas, 36, Miami Vice also marks a career breakthrough after a variety of stage, screen and TV roles. Part Irish, German, American Indian and black ("I'm American gumbo"), Thomas writes poetry, markets a line of women's clothing and peppers his conversation with upbeat spiritual homilies ("If you love anything enough it will give up all its secrets"; "I replenish myself by giving, and it comes back"). Easygoing and exuberant, he is a sharp contrast to Johnson, who is described as meticulous and demanding on the set. "We're like night and day," says Thomas. "Don's like...
...Harvard junior varsity heavyweight crew was not as lucky. The j.v. boat was beaten Saturday in Henley's second most important race for eights, the Ladies Challenge Plate, losing in the quarterfinals by a half-length to a formidable Irish crew, Garda Siochana...