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...questions, like whose program is "our" program? Is it the program of the brother who's standing on a corner in Harlem, of the black man who's being pushed out of his home in Roxbury? Or is "our" program the program of sophisticated blacks in three-hundred-dollar knit suits from Saks, the program of the black bourgeoisie...
...Jewish "race." As Scholar Raphael Patai points out in his book, Tents of Jacob, Jews of one geographical area share physiological traits with their immediate non-Jewish neighbors but much less so with Jews of a distant geographical area. Still, the Jews' long history of wandering as tightly knit communities has dispersed them into a wide range of distinct ethnic groups...
...patterns of earlier years still hold true in the Shklar household where Mrs. Shklar and her husband (a professor at Harvard Medical School) don't have time to go out, except separately, each with a different child, to concerts and the like. An extremely close-knit family, they prefer to stay home and make their own music. Predictably brushing off her own merits as a pianist, Mrs. Shklar is lavish with her praise of the musical talents of the rest of the family. "I'm square," she says repeatedly, and this is the same term she uses for her taste...
...state, which he refers to as "my principal shareholder," Cefis is following an aggressive expansion program; he has gained control of Carlo Erba, Italy's second-largest drug company; Rhodiatoce, a synthetic-fiber maker; and Bastogi, a major financial holding company. Cefis' main aim: to knit Montedison into a chemical combine strong enough to compete with giant foreign firms...
...memoir part deals with growing up in a tightly knit, loyal family of social workers in Cincinnati and Knoxville. As a child she had two idols, her glamorous older sister Gary and her grandmother Louvenia. Nikki did all Gary's fighting for her for the excellent reason that Gary was a musician who argued that if her hands were "maimed," the families of her music teachers might starve. Protecting Louvenia was a harder assignment. Nikki's childhood ended the day she realized that her grandmother was dying...