Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always so. In the '60s, the neighborhood's youth began to drift away. Federal and state highway officials designated the path of Interstate Highway 44 through an area of the Hill. Assuming that land values would plunge with the construction of the road, many homeowners stopped maintaining their property. A local lead company began pumping slurry into the abandoned clay mines, threatening to undermine foundations. Explains Father Salvatore Polizzi, 43, associate pastor of St. Ambrose toman Catholic Church: "The Hill was becoming a blighted cemetery...
...nonprofit development corporation to guide the future of the area. In its four years' existence, the corporation has found 60 jobs for new -and old-residents in the neighborhood's salami and macaroni factories, tool company and glass factory. It has set up a summer youth program and hired students at $1 an hour to spruce up the area. The students redecorated the Hill's hydrants and trash cans in red, white and green (the colors of the Italian flag). More than 1,000 trees have been planted. A system of block workers...
This August a series of conferences will begin at Taizé and later move on to other countries. The meetings, to be called the Council of Youth, will explore ways that the young can help offset the injustices of the world so that, as a council slogan puts it, man will "no longer be victim to man." Brother Roger does not want the council to become a bureaucratized movement. There will be, he says, "no successions of votes, amendments, commissions, representations. It will be like an ever-widening river ... it will be what we shall have become...
...Jazz. Clarinetist Bob Fritz brings his new group on Friday, April 26 to the School of Contemporary Music on Beacon St. in Brookline, 8:30 p.m.,$2...Reedman David Smith plays with the Music of the Spheres Orchestra Friday, April 26 at Stone Soup, 8:30 p.m.... The Boston Youth Jazz Ensemble headlines a concert of jazz musicians and groups on Sunday, April 28, at the B.U. School of Fine Arts Concert Hall...
ROCK AND ROLL, like all other aspects of youth culture, has not been left behind in the advance to nowhere. The music one hears really does seem crummy these days, and it is not because there are fewer individual talents, although that is undoubtedly true. The social content of rock has changed, and that, it turns out, is really what mattered. What was once the aesthetic and cultural background against which we measured our collective progress has become merely the shifting aggregate of individual talents and trends. They give us a nice way to get our utils...