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INSIDE, a gaunt black St. Nicholas and an Uhuru poster, chains broken, decorate the walls of the modern office of Freedom Industries, Inc.--a new attempt in Boston to make black power mean money. Downtown Roxbury -- dirty streets sandwiched between grey buildings, and the problems of ghetto poverty--waits outside...
...Merger does not necessarily mean coed dormitories," Mrs. Bunting emphasized, "But we all know that President Pusey has said there will be no coeducation without merger." The Harvard Faculty could assume the new responsibility for the girls even if they remain in the old Radcliffe dormitories...
Neither would merger give much immediate hope of expanding Radcliffe's enrollment to a more reasonable ratio with Harvard. Class places for Harvard freshmen are not likely to be reduced, so that any increase in the number of girls will mean expansion of the college...
...more controlled, more pointed social satire one associates with Roth has had to be forfeited. To be sure, there is still an overwhelming section on the WASP as seen by a young Jew. ("These are the children from the coloring books come to life, the children they mean on the signs we pass in Union, New Jersey, that say CHILDREN AT PLAY and DRIVE CAREFULLY, WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN.") It is more damning than anything in Roth's last novel, a story of an unwed mother in the great Midwest called When She Was Good (1967). And there...
...dirty show or an occasional shoe store, those in the know follow little green signs up the long flight of stairs leading to the world of BAD. This entertainment weekly's staff belongs in these rooms; young, flashy, overflowing with enthusiasm, they talk about integrity and dedication and really mean it. And last Friday Mayor Kevin White proclaimed March 4 "Boston After Dark...