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David L. Evans is associate director of Harvard College admissions, assistant dean of freshmen, and academic tutor of Dudley House. He is black, and was born in Wabash, Ark., in the midst of the Depression and Jim Crow. His father, a sharecropper, died when David was 10 years old. His mother, a domestic, died when he was 16. Evans is successful because he has pushed, elbowed, and kept a stiff upper lip--but he has retained his humanity. Against all dictates of probability, he has been concerned enough to turn around and help others to push aside their own barricades...
...tall, with a blazing shock of carrot hair-he entered the University of Pennsylvania to study "eight or nine" languages and flout the regular curriculum. He also met a medical student named William Carlos Williams, and they began poetic experiments together. After his studies, Pound taught briefly at Wabash College but was thrown out-he kept a girl in his room for a night. Outraged but probably relieved too, Pound set off for the Continent in 1908, the first of the modern expatriates. "London, Lundon, the place of poesy," he chortled to Williams...
...mile tour of the nation and came up with a list of 46 communities where crime is low or nonexistent, the air is clean, the taxes moderate. Among the nominees: Woodstock, Vt.; Red Lodge, Mont.; Green Bay, Wis.; Fairhope, Ala.; Moscow, Idaho; and Wabash, Ind. Among the Frankes' observations: "ethnic" communities, with many old world social controls still in force-Polish, Italian or whatever -tend to be the safest, and no place in the country is free from drugs...
...Utopian ventures of the early and mid-19th century?from Indiana's New Harmony on the Wabash River to Massachusetts' famed Brook Farm?eventually foundered, and Twin Oaks, too, has its problems. The major one appears to be financial. "Skinner never wrote about a poor community," laments Gabe Sinclair. "He wrote about a rich one." After starting with only $35,000, Twin Oaks, four years later, still finds survival a struggle. The farm brings more emotional than monetary rewards; members would find it cheaper to work at other jobs and buy their food at the market. The community's chief...
Last week, in an effort to turn the railroad into a modern if diminished mode of travel, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., called Amtrak, began its service. In the interests of efficiency, Amtrak eliminated nearly 200 trains. Among the casualties were some that had become legendary-the Wabash Cannonball from St. Louis to Detroit, the Capitol Limited from Washington to Chicago, the Nancy Hanks II from Savannah to Atlanta. Dozens of other great trains, such as the Twentieth Century Limited and the Phoebe Snow between Hoboken, N.J., and Chicago, had already vanished. What remains of rail service may become better...