Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...controversy over these appointments has become the hottest issue in Cambridge politics in many years, since opposition to them was formed by Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the School of Education, in conjunction with the Cambridge Civic Association...
...undeniably in a bad way. Mayor Sullivan and other professional elements in the city have seen to it that the schools are overloaded with patronage appointments, the latest incidence of which occurred last December and is the hottest issue today. Crusading royally against the Mayor is the Cambridge Civic Association...
...makeup is determined not so much by personal ability as by quotas, e.g., five Catholics, three Protestants, one Jew. In twelve years the council has never defeated a Lawrence proposal. His Republican opposition is weak and disorganized; Pittsburgh's top Republican businessmen like Lawrence's record of civic progress, have given precious little support to his opponent in next week's election, former Common Pleas Judge John Drew...
...bluff overlooking Lake Michigan, Milwaukee has just built one of the country's finest examples of modern architecture put to work for civic purposes. It is a new Memorial Center, designed by Architect Eero Saarinen (TIME, July 2, 1956), combining quarters for veterans' services and a new home for the Milwaukee Art Institute in an open, dramatically cantilevered structure built for $2,700,000. In its first five weeks of full operation, the Memorial Center has already added new zest to community life and revitalized art interest in the city. The Art Institute's housewarming show-some...
...rather weird combination of the lives of Helen Keller and Trilby. Esther turns out to be a lovely and precocious girl, and when the newspapers get the story of her amazing development, her guardian is knocked off her feet by a mailbag full of invitations to speak before civic and religious organizations. She accepts a few of them, and before long she and Esther are major personalities on the lecture circuit. It is only a step from there to raising funds for other handicapped children, and before long Guardian Crawford finds herself on the verge of becoming a big business...