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...book opens with a crucial distinction between different strata of the street society that filled the Sanctuary storefront on Mt. Auburn Street two summers ago. On top were the "summer travellers"--older, more affluent, and more sophisticated college graduates and dropouts bumming their wary around the country--the middle class alienated youth we usually associate with hip lifestyle...
...that it can admit their uncertainty and alienation. What can these kids do with themselves with no money, in a country such as this? What will work? Where do you draw the line? Blum and Smith recall the dilemma of establishing some kind of Legitimate moral authority in the storefront...
When a street kid comes in with stolen camera, what is the proper response? To tell her to get it out of the storefront where it could get us in trouble? to join the other kids in asking for the story of where it came from, thereby lending some kind of tacit approval? To show off our hip anticapitalism by distinguishing between stealing from a friend and stealing form a rich Harvard Square camera store? To come down hard on stealing in principle, neglecting the truth (as we see it) that excessive profit is stolen from workers and consumers anyway...
...inner-city bartenders have completed an experimental program designed to give them elementary counseling skills and teach them how to show emotionally sick barflies the way to psychiatric clinics. The course of study, sponsored by the Mental Health Association, included discussions with social workers plus field trips to a storefront mental-health clinic and a center for rehabilitating alcoholics. According to the report, the program actually worked...
Lyons recalled that the band had trouble finding places where they might practice through the fall, and at one point rented a small storefront in Swampscott where he said they nearly froze. But Federer added, "We were finally getting our own music, getting up on our own feet. That was enough to keep us happy." That winter they received miscellaneous jobs at dances, including several Harvard mixers...