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Another immigrant points out class differences in political involvement. "Some of the Portuguese in Cambridge and Somerville are involved with politics, but I don't think the working people have gotten involved much," says Vivaldo Meneses, who immigrated to Cambridge five years ago, then moved to Somerville. "Because we can't talk over there, all the Portuguese are afraid of politics...
...experiences of Vivaldo Meneses, a welder and iron craftsman who came to Cambridge five years ago, illustrate the housing problems the Portuguese immigrants face in Cambridge. "We paid a lot of money in rent for a junk house when we first came here," Meneses recalls. "The landlord wanted to sell the house so he didn't want to do anything to it. I paid $110 a month and there was no good electricity or heat in the apartment. When I repaired the house myself, the landlord charged more rent. He said the taxes went up. Most of the Portuguese people...
...never been able to learn his identity as a man because he could never forget his identity as a Negro. His sister Ida battles the white world too, but ends by yielding to the love of her brother's best friend, an Irish-Italian from Brooklyn named Vivaldo Moore. Blonde Clarissa Silenski, a Boston aristocrat (Puritan uprightness. Puritan guilt), is disappointed in the second-rate values of her husband Richard, a teacher and writer of Polish immigrant stock. Actor Eric Jones (the American South) has had to quit Alabama for Europe, less because he is a homosexual than because...
Gustav Holst, famous English composer, now giving several courses in composition at Harvard, will conduct the orchestra in the recital of one of his own compositions, the St. Paul's Sutte for string orchestras. The program also includes a Vivaldo concerto that is seldom given, and a concerto for the violon-cello that has never been heard in Boston before will be played by R. U. Jameson '32, president of the Sodality. The program is as follows: Water Music Handel Concerto in B Minor for four violins Vivaldo Violin solos S. T. Romasskieicz '33 George Mateyo '34 David Band...
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