Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raisin in the Sun. Tenement realism about family life in Chicago's black belt bursts out in a writhing, vital mess...
...then some people don't like the way Albert Schweitzer plays the organ. Certainly he does not act, but perhaps that is expecting too much of a lad who is only 26, and who, as he shyly confesses, was spanked by his mother (with a sewing-machine belt) until...
...Inner Belt itself is part of a system of expressways which will facilitate movement between the center of the Metropolitan area and the suburbs. The Belt will extend in an are of approximately seven miles from a point in Charlestown near the Mystic River Bridge to Massachusetts Avenue in Roxbury, near the Boston City Hospital. It will penetrate Somerville, Brookline, and parts of Boston, as well as Cambridge. Because of complications on the Brookline side of the Charles, the road must enter Cambridge somewhere west of the Boston University Bridge. At this point the geographical tragi-comedy begins...
Until Governor Volpe started the uproar about highways, it seemed as though Cambridge had reconciled itself to marriage with the Inner Belt route--at an indefinite future time. With the furor, this reconciliation disintegrated. Where there had been at best a strained unity on the choice of one route in particular, now the champions of other routes and of no route at all are back in the battle...
After visiting the governor with a city council delegation, enquiring about the Inner Belt, McNamara threw down his personal gauntlet: "If you think the fuss over the toll road led by Mayor Gibbs of Newton is creating a stir, it is but a lawn party compared to what will happen in Cambridge if a Belt highway on one of the routes now proposed is announced...