I feel all alone in a traffic jam, Jesus By Malcolm Boyd, \o7 From "Are You Running With Me, Jesus? A Spiritual Companion for the 1990s" (Beacon Press, distributed by Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $8.95\f7 , \o7 paper; 0-8070-7700-3). An Episcopal priest long resident in Los Angeles, Malcolm Boyd was, in 1965, a clerical activist in the civil\f7 -\o7 rights movement, working in the Detroit ghetto. His collection of intensely private prayers about realities often public and always unmistakably American caught both the candor and the vulnerability of the spiritual crisis that was the 1960s. Published in 1965, the book was an immediate best seller and turned its author into a celebrity. Later, in the '70s and '80s, as Boyd explains in the retrospective introduction to this anniversary edition, he faced other, sometimes more personal crises as he lost and recovered his faith and came to public as well as private terms with his homosexuality. The anniversary edition contains a number of new meditations on AIDS, the environment and other '90s topics. 1990, Malcolm Boyd. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press\f7
PLATFORM : Adding a Priority \o7 JOHN GAMBOA, director of the Latino Issues Forum, a San Francisco-based civil\f7 -\o7 rights group, favors state legislation to improve admissions access to state universities for Latino and black community college students. He told The Times: \f7
Law Specific on Security Deposit Deductions By Kevin Postema, \o7 Postema is the editor of Apartment Age magazine, a publication of The Apartment Assn. of Greater Los Angeles, an apartment owners' service group\f7
Large Cracks in Stucco Can Be Sign of Trouble By Bill Ross, \f7 and \o7 Ross is the public relations chairman for the California Real Estate Inspection Assn. (CREIA/ASHI), a statewide trade association of home inspectors.