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...camp provides educational, cultural, and recreational activities during the summer for 100 children from the Jefferson Park, Roosevelt Towers, and Newtown Court housing projects...

Author: By Thomas R. Ellis, | Title: Camp Asks for City Funding | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

...good folk-song material here. He bought some beehives. He tapped his maple trees in the spring and discovered with a born-again countryman's pleasure that his illustrious ancestor, Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, had written a long letter to Thomas Jefferson, promoting maple sugar as a boon to health and commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Skid Marks | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

After graduating from Amherst and Yale Drama School he was asked to play a Mid-Western lawyer vulnerable to big city temptations, in "Seesaw," which ran on Broadway in 1973. Since then, his major stage accomplishments include a Theater World Award for his portrayal of Thomas Jefferson in "1776" and a Tony Award for his work in "Child's Play...

Author: By Emily J.M. Knowlton, | Title: Ken Howard: Leaving Hollywood for Harvard | 3/18/1987 | See Source »

...reason and always able to improve things. To put it another way, the unconstrained see human beings as perfectible, the constrained as forever flawed. The constrained vision, as expressed by Adam Smith or Alexander Hamilton, seeks trade-offs; the unconstrained vision, as in John Stuart Mill or Thomas Jefferson, seeks solutions. "The constrained vision is a tragic vision of the human condition," Sowell writes. "The unconstrained vision is a moral vision of human intentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Upside Down and Vice Versa A CONFLICT OF VISIONS: IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF POLITICAL STRUGGLES | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...changes in this L.A. band that it is essentially a new group. Personnel shakeups have brought drummer R. Kahr and lead guitarist Jeff Ross into the group. Ross's guitar pyrotechnics have changed Rank and File's style accordingly, from a country-edged punk flavoring to a corporate-rock, Jefferson Starship-type sound...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Corporate And Ugly Rock | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

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