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Francis Dummer Fisher '47 was born in 1926 in a suburb of Chicago and grew up on a street that was named after the male side of his lineage. His grandfather, whom Fisher characterizes as a "prickly sort of character, a muckraker," made his name in the 1890s in Chicago by wrenching the foul control of the traction-barons, or street-car franchises, off City Hall. And because President William Howard Taft wanted a man who was as "pure as a hound's tooth," as Frank Fisher tells it, to head the Department of the Interior, he went...
...director of the OCS-OCL. Fisher makes $28,000 a year--$8000 less than his salary at the top of the civil service, and he does not have the notoriety he had, say, when he forced all-white Warren, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, to integrate its work force in 1969. Neither of those perquisites--money or notoriety--is as important to Fisher as the sense that he is dealing with big issues, and he is pleased with his work at 54 Dunster Street. "In general a job is pretty exciting if you can catch a couple of hours...
...than in any other country in history, with government, the professions and all walks of life open to them, the concern was that Jews would forget their traditions and simply merge with the population. Where the ghetto served to preserve Judaism, it was feared the American suburb might subtly undermine it. Since World War II, the spectacle of Israel?brave, threatened, struggling for survival against heavy odds?did much to avert this danger
...course, it will implicitly choose a certain kind of environment--one, perhaps, in which all Cambridge slowly becomes like Harvard and MIT until we find that we are no longer an urban university but one which has allowed there to grow up around itself a kind of inner-city suburb with a single life style...
...Kenmore Moviehouse early next week. Mean Streets was a critical smash in New York, but it never made much money, so maybe that's why this new Susskind-Warner production is a little too easy sometimes: when Ellen Burstyn takes off west from the nightmare of a suburb in New Mexico, we see the station wagon eat the highway with high-energy music playing behind, as though you're supposed to groove to the film instead of watching it. But the rest of Alice's journey from domination and fear to non-sexist union is much better. Scorsese...