Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classes), and Lois Stalvey still clings to hope for the inner-city schools. Like a militant black mother with whom she sided years ago, she believes that the schools need "white hostages" to keep from going under completely. But she is far from confident that even that can save the black students. "Why bother moving children's bodies around to achieve integrated education," she asks, "if like the black children in our school, they could not escape teachers with segregating eyes...
...produce migraines, ulcers and hysteria. Contact with a true eccentric is essential to maintaining one's sanity. The few eccentrics I've known have rescued me from the brink of self-destruction. Eccentrics hang drying pumpkin and apple slices from their livingroom ceilings. They know the words to "God Save the Czar." They are experts on the Hapsburgs. They wear Wallabees. And, if they happened to have been extremely rich and Bostonian in the 1890s, they built Venetian palaces...
...Never make a big decision when you're angry, hungry or happy,' he declared at the outset of our interview. So it was with extreme deliberation that he deftly explained the moves with which he has perpetuated his power and the need, as he sees it, to save his country from 'a cocktail of anarchy.' " Excerpts from the interview...
...Citizen Participation committee. Some board members think Citizen Participation money could help more people if the board diverted the funds into other areas. Most members disagree. The board has been important in several instances, most recently in support of the Douglas Street Tenants Association in their fight to save an old apartment building near Central Square...
...statistics that indicate that in 20 years Harvard males (that means us!) will give more than females. And the sad part is they are right. Needless to say, the prospect of cutting a Harvard class in half is out of the question and it would be first doubled to "save" an endowment so large a separate investment fund is necessary, even at the ridiculous cost of worsening our housing situation. This is efficiency, not humanity; it is a corporation, not a school; we are workers, not thinkers; and in the end, we too will contribute...