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...wave of blacks aimed to steal it from them. South Bostonians, as a community, furthermore, feel tight, proud, distinctively Irish and obsessively xenophobic. The sentiments, as The New York Times correspondent John Kifner says, added to the backlash when Judge Garrity placed South Boston High School in court "receivership"--under court jurisdiction--last January. Most of the citizens of South Boston hold the high school close to their hearts, Kifner says, because it was there that most of them spent the best years of their lives. But, as Harvard-affiliated writer Robert Coles has let us know, those years stand...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...wave of blacks aimed to steal it from them. South Bostonians, as a community, furthermore, feel tight, proud, distinctively Irish and obsessively xenophobic. The sentiments, as The New York Times correspondent John Kifner says, added to the backlash when Judge Garrity placed South Boston High School in court "receivership"--under court jurisdiction--last January. Most of the citizens of South Boston hold the high school close to their hearts, Kifner says, because it was there that most of them spent the best years of their lives. But, as Harvard-affiliated writer Robert Coles has let us know, those years stand...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...well-known New York bank of the same name). The plaintiffs charged that because of mismanagement, Bankers Trust was about to default on some of its $211 million in savings deposits. Bankers Trust officials at first denied it, but several weeks later agreed to place the S & L in receivership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Freeze in Mississippi | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...minutes (now withdrawn by the embarrassed visiting committee which is still in the process of writing the normal milquetoast pap that passes for governing board oversight) also seem to reflect a consensus on the panel--shared by many GSD faculty and students--that Kilbridge's administration has been a "receivership" and that "Kilbridge cannot provide continued intellectual leadership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Dean For the GSD | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...success in pulling the School out of administrative disorder. One member remarked, however, that a struggling image of the School persists outside the University and he suggested that we cease drawing attention to this aspect of Kilbridge's Deanship. Comparing the Kilbridge administration to a receivership, members suggested that Kilbridge cannot provide continued intellectual leadership and pointed to the need for a new Dean to bring the School to excellence. One member said that the logical head "could possibly be" an architect but that an architect should be hired with the proviso that he can build. Another remarked that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GSD Visiting Committee Minutes | 3/12/1976 | See Source »

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