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...SUBVERSIVE," Lisa has quite a record. Back at public high school in Croton-Harmon, a small town outside of New York, Lisa's guidance counselor did her a favor of informing the colleges Lisa had applied to of her radical activities in and out of school. Activities like organizing school cafeteria fasts to raise money for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and antiwar agitation. Lots of students were agitators in their local high schools but few stepped beyond the bounds of practical wisdom and got themselves thrown out of high school. Agitating against...
Crime Supplement. Fish are clearly Boyle's primary fixation. He keeps an aquarium in his Croton-on-Hudson house, partly for receiving specimens he seines from the river, partly to exercise his empathy for finned creatures. The striped-bass fingerlings, he comments cheerfully, "were gamboling all over the tank like Labrador pups." Just as canaries were once carried into coal mines to warn the miners of poisonous gases, Boyle tends to use fish as a measure of man. Bass taken from the Hudson off Bayonne have a taint of petroleum; shad roe is more than just fishy; sturgeon taken...
...CAROL SANDERS Croton-on-Hudson...
...guns represent, why are Americans so enamored of them? For the man with a feeling of insecurity or inferiority, a pistol in his pocket is the "equalizer," the "difference." For the gang youth, it is a badge of bravery. Ernest Dichter, director of the Institute for Motivational Research at Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., maintains that "we're just emerging from a brawn culture into a brain culture, and brains are not as dramatic." Guns compensate for that, Dichter adds, by serving as "a virility source. Clyde [of Bonnie and Clyde] is impotent, and he is using his gun to balance...
MORTON CLURMAN Croton-on-Hudson...