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...case, most of all this top-notch talent you're paying for is in Boston as part of the Boston University Celebrity Series, now in its fortieth year. Founded by the late Aaron Richmond, the Celebrity Series works approximately eighteen months in advance to schedule 35 concerts and recitals per season...
...Stuart's boots and the saddle on which he received his fatal wound at Yellow Tavern. Stonewall Jackson's cap. Three hundred battle flags. It was all there in the venerable "White House of the Confederacy"?the 158-year-old mansion where President Jefferson Davis lived at Richmond. Since the turn of the century, awed Southerners have walked through the hallowed building?along with curious Yankees. Together, they and the memorabilia helped to prolong the cliché of the South as a place where the clocks were frozen on the afternoon of April...
...would-be member than the upper-crustiest men's club in London. But in most of the South, as one historian has observed, noblesse oblige has yielded to bourgeoisie oblige-even at the country club, traditionally the most closely guarded bastion of upper-class Southern Waspdom. Richmond's Country Club of Virginia, once a haven for FFVs (First Families of Virginia), now has 5,600 members (family membership is $5,000, plus annual dues starting at $660) and does not demand a blue-blood test of applicants. Nowadays, as the eminent Virginius Dabney, retired editor of the Richmond...
...Handle Saturday. Not only have the academies spawned resegregation, but many urban school districts -especially in Atlanta, Richmond, Charleston, S.C., and Houston-have become increasingly black because a large number of whites have moved to the suburbs. Another pattern of resegregation occasionally takes place within desegregated schools when students are simply assigned to segregated classes. Sometimes the black students segregate themselves. For example, at the season's first pep rally this year at Indian River High School in Chesapeake, Va., all the blacks sat on one side of the gym while the whites sat on the other Says Dorothy...
...Richmond Heights...