Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party has nominated its own candidate, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Nor because the Conservative Party is for the first time threatening to outpoll the Liberals in a state-wide race and thus become the number three party in the state. What is really important is that the swing voting block, which has dominated New York state politics for more than twenty years, is about to be supplanted by an entirely different and often hostile bloc...
...subcommittee suggests several methods of teaching both core and elective courses, but the most desirable would present the core in blocks of time that would alternate with blocks of time reserved for elective courses. The report suggests that the academic year be divided into blocks of 20, 15, and 10 weeks, with the first and third devoted to the core, and the second to the electives. By having the second block correspond with the second semester in the rest of the University it will be possible for Med students to take courses in other Faculties, and similarly for students...
103rd Street cuts through the heart of Watts. Along its 4-block "business" section are a couple of drug stores, some food counters, and a small clothing store, but most of the buildings are either deserted as a result of the riots or occupied by a government poverty agency. It is also along this strip that Westminister Neighborhood Association, a large all-black organization run mainly on federal funds, has its detached workers' office...
...middle of the block stands Watts Happening, the coffee house started by some members of the community after the riots. In an area studded by Teen Posts, offices of OEO and OIC and Headstart, it is one of the few establishments that the residents can call their own: they own it, they run it, and they decide what happens in it. It is here, accompanied by Afro-Cuban jazz made by local musicians, that the "grassroots" voices can be heard. Tortured images of Negro life by local artists cover the walls. African sculpture stands in the corners. Just inside...
...unlike most of the executives at Westminister, he actually lives in Watts. Members of the grassroots organizations are reluctant to call him bourgeois, yet he talks a much different line than they do. He moves around by himself quietly, behind the scenes, and accomplishes such things as organizing block councils for voting purposes...