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...stumble across in seven weeks at the Summer School--like all those bars down Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square, and up Cambridge Street toward Somerville. Those are the neighborhood places: O'Connors, on Beacon Street, rivals Whitney's in price, and the ambience is strictly Irish neighborly and close-knit; Studley's, on Kirkland, is a little less homey and more corporate, featuring a 6-foot high color TV screen and professionally frosted steins of draft beer. Kevin's Club, in the same area, features country and western bands many nights and a slick, dress-up interior, the sort...
Today membership in an ethnic group is growing more important than American identity. Unless present fed eral policies are modified, Glazer fore casts a continuing rise in ethnic consciousness and combativeness. In short, Glazer concludes that liberal policy makers, as they seek to knit an inte grated society together, are unraveling it as they...
...Goldberg is a junior majoring in Astronomy, one of the 22 undergraduates in the field. With a student/teacher ratio of about ten to one, Astronomy is a close-knit department. "Most of my professors are friends of mine too," Art says...
...Children's Hospital, Masland and Piazza have found that their patients come from close-knit, economically comfortable homes and that they suffer from a "fear of growing up." Piazza says the families are usually "so close-knit that the child hasn't really been able to express herself, to feel autonomous. There is a desire to stay small, to be cared for by this close-knit family." Parents feel guilty because their child will not eat, and meals become battles. Therefore the therapy at Children's focuses on the entire family...
...battle over the billions almost certainly will be fought by two groups that could hardly be more opposed. On the one side are Hughes' rather distant Houston relatives, all members of the city's old, tight-knit aristocracy. They live mostly in the genteel River Oaks area, belong to the best clubs (the Assembly, the Tejas Club), are members of the Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal) and try-with unusual success-to keep out of the news...