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Harvard's current (and first) community effort is the Putnam Square Apartment for the elderly, located at Mt. Auburn St. and Putnam Ave. The twelve-story tower will contain 94 low-income living units, plus community space on the first and twelfth floors. Plans to build family housing at Blair Pond have been forestalled by local neighborhood opposition. This opposition, not unlike that encountered by many housing planners, is basically racism clothed in ecological terms...
...scaled fields and forests, and populated by immaculately realistic toy soldiers. The only thing actually flowing is ale. The men are gathered, as is their monthly custom, in a private room over the Ordnance Arms, a pub in London's Southwark. The Society of Ancients is staging the twelfth battle of its miniaturized Wars of the Roses. But did the Battle of Pleshey actually occur? Not bloody likely...
...work depends upon a great singing actress for its ultimate effect. Emilia Marty should be beautiful, venomous, sinister and finally tragic. Her music is strident and etched in acid but when Marty accepts death, it soars toward the sublime. California-born Soprano Maralin Niska, singing her twelfth role with the New York City Opera, was almost up to her demanding role. Niska's voice is bright and well cultivated rather than monumental, but at her best she left no doubt what Janáček had in mind. She is a superb actress who lacks only a measure...
...Gerry Studds, the prep school teacher who helped manage Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign in 1968, has lost a cliffhanger race for Congress in Massachusetts' Twelfth District...
...Tenth District, antiwar Democrat Gerry Studds clung to a precarious 3400-vote lead out of nearly 16,000 cast over six-term Republican incumbent Hastings Keith, while the antiwar campaign of Democrat Bertram A. Yaffe appeared headed for defeat at the hands of long-time Republican Twelfth District congresswoman Margaret Heckler, who led by more than 7000 votes out of 43,000 cast with one-fourth of the votes counted...