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...work, students will form a small company, buy a rundown house, spend three hours a week fixing it up, and then try to sell it. The university aims to teach that "there is still worth in the old notions of independence, pride in workmanship and craftsmanship." Perhaps self-reliance is a trait that can not be taught as a sort of fourth R, but a university determined to give students the broadest outlook could hardly try to teach anything more important...
Back in the early '50s, the U.S. Post Office found Love and Death obscene and refused to deliver mail to Legman's Bronx home-a small, rundown cottage furnished ceiling to floor with books and cats. Shortly thereafter, he and his wife packed their belongings, including one of the world's largest private collections of erotic and scatological literature, and moved to France. Since the death of his wife in 1966, he has remarried and fathered three children. The Legman home is on fifteen acres in Valbonne...
Expecting a monochromatic street punk, the L.A. crowd got a dervish leaping on the tables, all arms and flailing dance steps, and a rock poet as well. In over ten years of playing tank-town dates and rundown discos, Springsteen has mastered the true stage secret of the rock pro: he seems to be letting go totally and fearlessly; yet the performance remains perfectly orchestrated. With his E Street Band, especially Clarence demons' smartly lowdown saxophone, Springsteen can caper and promenade, boogie out into the audience, recite a rambling, funny monologue about girl watching back in Asbury Park...
...nisei, or second-generation Americans; Ariyoshi's father had been a sumo wrestler in Japan. Today only two non-A.J.A.s hold major elective offices in Hawaii: U.S. Senator Hiram Fong, who is of Chinese ancestry, and Frank Fasi, mayor of Honolulu, an Italian American. A rundown of other important Hawaiian politicians reads like an A.J.A. Who's Who: U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye of Watergate committee fame, Representatives Spark Matsunaga and Patsy Mink, State Senate President John Ushijima, State House Speaker James Wakatsuki. A.J.A.s hold 55% of the seats in the state legislature and six of the eleven...
Life underground for the 200 members was a grubby odyssey of communal apartments, petty theft and clandestine meetings. Supported by as many as 4,000 sympathizers, the hard-core members lived in "safe houses" that were typically located in rundown working-class neighborhoods or near campuses. In addition, several havens were provided in middle-class neighborhoods by wealthy sympathizers...