Word: answering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ALWAYS wanted to answer that we were changing the minds of the ruling class. Teddy looking really sad when we yelled "Selllllll-out!" at him too. The first time a Kennedy had been booed in Boston. Humphrey had even cut his prepared speech to shout back at us. He promised to "do everything in my power to end the war if you elect me President." I had been in the first row and I was sure that Humphrey had looked at me during the yelling and had seen my clenched fist and work shirt with rolled-up sleeves...
...part, the answer lies in the fact that this is a time of troubles for Cambridge. Long established neighborhoods--cohesive communities with churches, bars, and candy stores all their own--are being threatened by a host of outside forces--the proposed Inner Belt highway, the new NASA center, and above all, an influx of new, would-be residents who are soaking up housing and driving up rents. People do literally get thrown out of their homes in Cambridge though, it must be admitted, how many do is not known...
...rent control bill, can't provide complete protection against rent raises, that it won't stop, the Inner Belt, or that it may even be impossible for Cambridge to pass a rent control ordinance without a specific enabling act from the state legislature--rent control seemed to offer the answer, a direct and personal assurance of safety in a time of peril...
...light. When he sits down to eat, however, the camera a few feet above his head seems to lock him into his chair, between the curved table-top before him and the gleaming surface of a globe behind. While cracking an egg he whistles to his canary; hearing no answer, he rises and goes to the cage. His head fills half the frame; the cage, the other half. His landlady comes in, takes the dead bird, and saying "no more singing" throws it into a Franklin stove whose open door reveals a brilliant light within. Jannings returns to his breakfast...
...social reality that lies beneath surface story lines. Therefore he has interweaved his narrative with a conventional documentary which attempts to set Miguel's story in context, to explain in party why Miguel is unskilled, why a country so rich in resources has so little for its people. The answer lies in Brazil's history of foreign economic dominations, a history of successive one-product economies (sugar, gold, diamonds, rubber, coffee) developed by foreign capitalists and then subverted by fluctuations in the world market. Subjugated by Dutch, English, and American capital, the labor force (including African slaves) was shunted from...