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Schlesinger, the author of "Cycles of AmericanHistory," also discussed "the extreme brevity ofAmerican history," He recalled that as a youth hisfather told him of conversations with former Harvard PresidentA Lawrence Lowell, who admitted his embarassmentthat Lowell's father voted for Abraham Lincoln inthe 1860 Presidential election...
...officers" are the enemy. Coming from the underclass, such individuals often feel they have no real opportunity to attain conventional standards of success or happiness, writes Rhodes scholar Jay MacLeod '83-'84, who was a PBH officer during his undergraduate years. In his book on disadvantaged Boston-area youth, Ain't No Makin' It, MacLeod argues that such hopelessness leaves people disconnected from mainstream society. Inmates agree, saying they feel shunned and forgotten. "No one's trying to do shit for us," says prisoner Ronnie Mack...
...many disadvantaged youth, prison is merely a mandatory rite of passage, Freed says. Connerty--who like most of the Deer Island inmates is serving out a drug-related sentence--says he has been getting arrested since he was nine years old. "By the time I was 18 or 19 and got put away, I was assured of knowing someone in here," he says...
...moody introspection vs. her forthright speech and action. Alas, what sounds like explosive chemistry proves inert. The missing catalyst is a directorial idea of what the play is about, a point of view. From the opening declamatory rant of a wounded soldier to the final hortatory hollowness of the youth who supplants Macbeth, volume substitutes for meaning. This fish stinks from the head: Plummer copes with the poetry of "tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" by denaturing it in monotone; Jackson distracts attention from her shrillness by twitching, fidgeting, and slithering her hands over her torso in erotic confusion...
...attacks on Jackson and Dukakis. By alienating blacks he may even have threatened his re-election to the Senate in 1990. His unimpressive showing means that he has failed to position himself as an early front runner for 1992, should the Democrats lose. But in this case, Gore's youth works to his advantage. He remains one of the brightest and most sensible politicians in his party. And even if he waits until the election of 2024 to roll around, he will still be younger than Ronald Reagan is today...