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Some city politicians said Flynn's policies have had little effect on Boston race relations and don't think the situation has been improved substantially...
Many politicians in the city attribute the poll's findings to the attitude of the administration of Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, but others say the change is due mainly to the good economic times in Boston and the fact that many whites live in isolated communities...
Melvin H. King, who opposed Flynn in the 1983 mayoral run-off, said, "There has not been much change. Flynn has been reluctant to acknowledge racism as a term. He will try to work around it if it can be done...
...four-hour lecture, full of piping lore and the illustrative invocation of legendary figures. "Now, Willie Clancy's playing had a lot of raw energy. He liked to bite every note with sharp teeth -- or maybe even with dull teeth, so it would cut even rougher. Liam O'Flynn, on the other hand, prefers to play a tune refined to the ultimate, with the least possible moral disturbance." In the course of the afternoon we learn the pipes were born sometime in the 18th century; the reason, say some, was that the British banned the playing of the war pipes...
...Flynn became mayor at the right time," Finneran said. "Right now the public is giving Flynn a honeymoon period...