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...before they die--Nate Shaw died shortly after Rosengarten finished his tapings--but even given that, Shaw's ability to remember everything that happened to him is extraordinary. He tells, often supplying exact dates, about everything from how many bales of cotton he raised in his first year of tenant farming, to how he felt when his wife died, to the relative merits of the myriad mules he plowed behind...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: A Genius Behind The Plow | 11/13/1974 | See Source »

...other black Southerners as well. His smallest action, if seen as typical of an entire race and class, immediately becomes universal in its importance and profundity. If Nate Shaw buys a mule, say, it may make an interesting story in itself; but if it's actually all struggling black tenant farmers acting, with Nate as a distillation of all their experiences, whatever he does takes on enormous significance...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: A Genius Behind The Plow | 11/13/1974 | See Source »

...mere suggestion that Harvard might "expand" never fails to arouse Vellucci's emotions and to provoke the ire of local tenant and neighborhood groups who fear the University will somehow infringe on their privacy. Several prominent Cambridge citizens interviewed recently demanded "greater sensitivity" from University officials who might be considering expansion in the next five to ten years...

Author: By Richard H.P. Sia, | Title: Expansion: The Growing Pains Harvard Might Suffer | 11/1/1974 | See Source »

...insurance along the lines of Blue Shield. Already, some 2,500 organizations round the country are experimenting with group plans. Students at the University of Massachusetts, for example, pay an annual fee and are now eligible for legal help in handling problems ranging from marijuana busts to landlord-and-tenant quarrels. In Columbus, Ohio, members of Local 423 of the Laborers' International Union can get everything from divorces and wills to real estate closings paid for by union legal insurance. Shoppers at a large food cooperative in Berkeley, Calif., can climb to the second floor, put down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Cut-Rate Counsel | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

Kaarli Tasso '76-2, a NAM spokesperson, says that revolution is any process that leaves society "radically changed." And Saffran suggests that what NAM means by a revolution is massive civil disobedience and labor and tenant strikes, that "could lead to violence...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Left-Liberals and Revolutionists at Harvard | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

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