Word: bedford
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...flung towns. At its greatest length, in 1651, the town was in Higginson's words, "long and thin, as becomes an overgrown youth, measuring 18 miles in length and only a mile in width. It is shaped like a pair of compasses, one leg extending through Arlington, Lexington, Bedford and Billerica," while the other, shorter leg bisected Brighton and Newton. The present Cambridge formed only the head of the compass...
...windows at all. The garbage in the doorways is not a pile but a growth. On a street north of Charlotte a green Chevy lies on its back like a cleaned fish. Such things are seen not only in the South Bronx but also in Harlem and the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, formerly a Jewish ghetto, now black. These areas too are worse off than they were four years ago. From a tenement roof in Long Island City, stately Sutton Place is in plain view across the East River. On the wall of a burned-out building in Harlem...
...RACE. "I been trying to get a job for two years," says Danny, a tall young black in Bedford-Stuyvesant. "Nothin'. My father, he tried for two years and then split. We haven't seen him for a year. So how do I live? I hustle... deal some dope, do a little stealing ... maybe even try to knock over a white newspaper reporter if I thought he had anything worth takin'. That's how a lot of us live out here...
There are 13 murders in Titus Andronicus, or an average of about one every twelve minutes. It is an early work (written in 1594), and the poetry is at odds with the fury, rampaging revenge pursued like a blood sport. Director Brian Bedford mitigates the gore, achieving a certain stoic Roman dignity. The drama's chief interest is that it offers embryonic models of characters who would dominate later tragedies...
...killing of a black youth by a white off-duty police officer, black leaders denounced the police and called for community action. When the crowd marched to a Harlem police station, scuffles with police erupted into a riot that lasted six days and also broke out in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. The final toll: one dead, 143 injured, 461 arrested...