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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Past Christmas observances in Marblehead's seven elementary schools (total enrollment: 2,270) differed little from those in other school systems. Children made window decorations, trimmed trees, sang carols and exchanged gifts at classroom parties. To some parents among the town's substantial Jewish minority, however, the celebrations seemed too Christian in character. Seeking to head off complaints, School Superintendent Aura W. Coleman met in November with four rabbis, four Protestant ministers and a Roman Catholic monsignor. They drew up a statement that Christmas observances should "avoid using subject matter of a theological or symbolic nature which might...
...students, numbering between 50 and 70, gathered near the basement door where they unsuccessfully tried to break through the window with a chain. One student then climbed onto the railing beside the door and, grabbing the Ivy vines on the wall, kicked the window in and unlocked the door...
...went out to her dressing room, a little cubbyhole in a trailer parked outside the building. The curtain over the tiny window had a note safety-pinned to it: "Liza Minelli-Junie Moon." Ali found me a pair of bellbottoms. (They were a size...
...stands before a mirror painting his face. "Strange how everything is turning out to be larger and smaller at the same time," he says. Applying the color to his forehead, he looks in the mirror with fascination. "Now I'm seeing windows all over, windows, windows. Suddenly, my face becomes like a window picture." He quickly fills in his blank cheeks with a network of lines. "What I'm painting now are the nerves beneath my face. I feel I can see through myself, look through my head, perceive its back. It expresses my innermost self. Funny...
Finally, the man got out of his car, broke my car window with his hands and tried to drag me out of the car. A man who announced that I had insulted his wife, the post-debutante, by my remark about the naked chicken, threw a full glass of Scotch in my face and said, "What do we have to do to make you get out and fight...