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RAISE RACE RAYS RAZE: ESSAYS SINCE 1965 by Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones). 169 pages. Random House...
...junta pulls out, some kind of arrangement with the Turks. Very old, dead, nobody knew about it, about the sale of those lands to the Greek government. And they said, "All of this area belong to us. We will give you this compensation, we're going to raze you to the ground, and we're going to bring some big outfits from abroad to turn this into a great tourist city." Now this is the middle class guys that are being expropriated. What I'm prepared to say is that the middle class took a stance of "let's wait...
...will not be easy to raze, much less reform, the misnamed U.S. "corrections" system, which has responsibility for more than 1.2 million offenders each day and handles perhaps twice as many each year. Since 1967, four presidential commissions, dozens of legislative reports and more than 500 books and articles have pleaded for prison reform. But the system remains as immutable as prison concrete, largely because life behind the walls is still a mystery to the public. Most Americans think of prisons only in terms of the old "big house" movies starring James Cagney and more recently Burt Lancaster...
...city. San Francisco's H. Liebes & Co., a women's specialty shop that opened more than a century ago, will shut down after Christmas. Manhattan's Best & Co., a Fifth Avenue landmark, recently sold its lease to a syndicate including Aristotle Onassis; the syndicate intends to raze the building and put an office tower on the site...
...Philadelphia's first case of misdirected energy, notes the students' lawyer. Last year, a city agency tore down the historic home of Declaration of Independence Signer Dr. Benjamin Rush when they were supposed to raze a building a mile away...