Word: aldermanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young sons from Chicago's South Side to Evanston four years ago. "It is the only suburb that allows for individuality," she says. "There aren't the same pressures for conformity here. There are so many kinds of people and kinds of circles to choose from." Republican Alderman William Nott, 61, who represents established northwest Evanston, says scornfully: "These independents and liberals want to change things. I'll tell you that a lot of old-time Evanstonians resent them...
Died. Representative William L. Dawson, 84, oldest member of Congress and for three decades the most influential black in Chicago politics; of pneumonia; in Chicago. First elected city alderman as a Republican in 1933, Dawson switched parties in 1939 and three years later was voted to the first of 14 terms representing the South Side slum wards. The first black committee chairman (Government Operations), he actively opposed the poll tax and fought vigorously for integration of the armed forces. In recent years, younger and more militant blacks had labeled Dawson an Uncle Tom for his close alliance with Mayor Richard...
Mailer in middle age continued to carry himself like a retired welterweight who might be thinking of a comeback, though he now pushed a bank clerk's belly. Age had performed interesting surgery on his face: cast him as a cab-driver, Chicago alderman, Irish cop, dart-champion in a workingman's pub, sly old convict; his face, like that of the late Everett Dirksen, told something of where he had been. Styron's face was a gentle mystery. Smooth for its forty-five years, it had of late come to look maybe a touch soft-trough so unblemished...
OTHER students concentrate on more traditional, though terribly exacting, struggles with draughtsmanship and realism. Sarah Holly Alderman's "Undergrowth" is an incredibly dense and detailed drawing full of grasses and ferns and wild plants. Her background tree stump floats a little in space, but the range of textures she gets out of her pencil is truly admirable. And Steve Selkowitz's "Mantis," my favorite sculpture in the show, is actually a three-dimensional kind of draughtsmanship. A yard-long praying mantis that waits high on a wall, the piece is built of soldered wires-lines in space-and is disconcertingly...
...hear with their ears but only through their rears." He knows how to kick. To force slumlords, corporations or city officials to clean up buildings, provide jobs or stop cheating consumers, he resorts to picketing, boycotts, rent strikes and some imaginative dramatic stunts. He had garbage dumped on an alderman's driveway to make the point that collections were inadequate in the slums; ghetto rats were ceremoniously deposited on the steps of city hall. If the occasion requires, Alinsky's forces will not refrain from spreading rumors about an antagonist or indulging in something that comes very close...