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| | TIME.com: Getting Straight On Delancey Street -- Mar. 19, 1973 -- Page 1 |
 | | Calling themselves the Delancey Street Family, these unlikely tenants have formed a new "therapeutic community" that is partly modeled after the well-publicized Synanon program, yet is crucially different from it. |
 | | The name they chose for themselves was inspired by Maher's boyhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where, in the 19th century, Delancey Street came to symbolize the self-reliant spirit of Old World immigrants working their way into the mainstream of American life. |
 | | In preparation for opening day later this month, members are honing their skills in the mansion's huge kitchen and candlelit dining room, where an ex-addict maitre d'hotel conducts family members and their guests to small tables, and waitresses serve them elegantly. |
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