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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong showing in Southie and Roxbury testifies to his careful handling of the delicate busing question--and perhaps paves the way for greater unity of a city split apart by race...
...have a way of surprising the Presidents who appoint them. Earl Warren did not turn out to be the man of moderate Republican views that Dwight Eisenhower expected him to be. The Nixon appointees have grown during their years on the Supreme Court; not surprisingly, they have also grown apart. Chief Justice Burger himself maintains that building an ideological bloc was not on his mind when he came to the court, whatever Nixon may have intended...
Born in 1883, Webern came of age amidst the last flowering of Viennese culture. He knew the writer Karl Kraus; he was painted by Oskar Kokoschka and treated by Psychiatrist Alfred Adler. Yet by choice and necessity, he remained a soul apart. He lived a frugal, ascetic life with his wife and four chil dren, eking out his income by teaching, by doing hack jobs for his music pub lisher and by conducting. He had a mea sure of success on the podium despite his distaste for the hubbub of the per forming life. He demanded unusual expressive nuances from...
...atomic level, were developed to resolve specific problems. Ernest Rutherford's celebrated early twentieth century experiments on nuclear density uncovered an empirical contradiction: all the protons (positively charged species) in a given atom are concentrated in its nucleus; since like charges repel one another, the nucleus should theoretically burst apart. So physicists coined the "strong" forces--those which specifically...
Across the street, the St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church community center is falling apart. There was a fire last year at this outpost of Roslindale's new Greek-American community; the walls are wood where they should be concrete; the concrete is peeling faster than the congregation is repairing. Inside the community center basement there is a small snack shop and about 30 tables covered in light blue grease cloths. The turnout is much smaller than it should be a couple of weeks before the election. About 45 Greek-Americans are sitting at the tables, chatting uniformly in Greek...