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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, it is in his advocacy of the abolition of the family that Jencks really oversteps himself. After presenting a persuasive argument for a socialist society, Jencks's courage fails him. He has trouble making up his mind whether to opt for socialism, the abolition of the family in favor of a Kibbutz system of child-rearing, or a combination of both. This confusion is not warranted by the facts and arguments Jencks provides. He argues...

Author: By Eric Davin, | Title: Christopher Jencks: Does He Lack The Courage Of His Convictions? | 11/19/1974 | See Source »

...unlikeliness of merger, though, does not mean that the Joint Policy Committee will opt for the other extreme and move Harvard and Radcliffe farther apart. Steiner says that while the committee has three broad options--separating Harvard and Radcliffe, moving them closer together or staying with the present arrangement--it is generally "moving in the direction of one institution...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Corporate Merger: Not This Year, Anyway | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...plan because certain tenants have expressed interest in owner-occupancy and because outside ownership relieves Harvard of taxes and maintenance costs and apparently increases the tenant's care for the homes. Hill says that he realistically doesn't expect more than six of the 30 involved tenants to opt for owner-occupancy initially...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Harvard To Offer Home Sales At Last | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...walk, hop a bus or drive to near Porter Square you can buy truly delicious home-made ice cream made on the premises of a one-store operation, Steve's Ice Cream, 191 Elm St. The atmosphere is simple and cheery. And Steve has a great gimmick: if you opt for the 50 cent rather than the 30 cent scoop you can have additions such as nuts, crushed heath bars and fruit kneaded in for 5 cents apiece. The store's growing popularity and extensive publicity, however, have resulted in nightmarishly long lines every evening. The New Yorker referred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ice Cream | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

Although Castriotta indeed has health problems (she is now at Mass General), many tenant groups here have speculated that a problem of another nature forced her to opt for resignation. As the summer progressed, Castriotta found her iron grip on CHA operations slipping, in large part stemming from the July appointment of a pro-tenant commissioner to the five-member CHA board and the resignation of her ally Charles A. Ferraro, CHA executive secretary. His day-to-day running of housing authority activities in the last year led to charges by a State Community Affairs official that...

Author: By Richard H.P. Sia, | Title: Tenants Come Closer to Housing Reforms | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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