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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TORREGRECA, by Ann Cornelisen. A beautifully written documentary of human adversity in Southern Italy that deserves a place next to Oscar Lewis' The Children of Sánchez...
...wilderness, but in the nation's cities. He speaks of plans for central-city swimming pools, city hiking trails and more vest-pocket parks. "A great national park is a glorious thing," he says, "but the boy sitting on the steps of a ghetto tenement deserves a place where he can discover that the sky is larger than the little hole he can see between the buildings...
...soil of the area is enormously fertile. In 1960, the complex was able to produce enough food to feed a million people for a year-or so Chinese propagandists claimed. In summer, however, it is no place for combat. Veterans of Japan's 13-year occupation of Manchuria recall the Ussuri River border area as "the worst possible place for a battle for much of the year-so swampy that it could easily swallow up an army." The Chinese side of the Ussuri is heavily forested; timbered hills sweep down to the river swamps for most of its length...
...Wall needs weeding. But the more serious complaint against it is its revolutionary melodrama that most often fills the place of analysis. Chapters end with Drama (Is there no way to get Dean Coleman released? There is no way, says Truman.) and with Hope (a wedding scene on the steps of occupied Fayerweather: "I now pronounce you children of the new age," spins the saga of revolution...
Though they may place a strain on the University's budget, the decreases in Federal aid are not likely to affect students here greatly, Gunness said. "We'll find alternative sources of funds. "We'll work it out somehow," he said...