Word: civic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measure does draw liberal student voters to the polls, it could increase the chances of reform-minded Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) council and school committee candidates. A similar measure opposing city investment in companies doing business in South Africa was credited with luring many students to the polls in the last election...
...driver and said, "Good Evening." There was something in the way he said it that made you feel as if he knew the drear shit and persiflage and yet could still be amiable. He wasn't one of those hereditary Kentucky Colonels who, in reality, are just civic club boosters. No, he was a Colonel who probably lived in Vicksburg. He probably living in an old tumble-down mansion that he had farmed scientifically in his youth. He was an excellent marksman, though he only killed what was necessary. His study was full of timeless books. He had seen...
...BOARD of Cambridge's Civic Association (CCA)--the local liberals--were embroiled last month in a nasty fight over whether to endorse Alvin Thompson, a Black candidate for city council. The CCA are well-intentioned, hard-working people, and, the truth be told, think highly of themselves. So there was some displeasure when an elderly Black man stood up to say his piece--an attack on the group and its upper-class constituency for prejudice and racism. It was a bitter speech, full of recriminations for past wrongs, and it made a lot of people, including many who opposed...
...single theme--the fraud of white rule--than their minds will be dominated by that idea, too. And the knowledge of prejudice and oppression is so well-founded that even if it is uncomfirmed for a little while or in a small place, it persists. The Cambridge Civic Association may not be full of racists; the editors of The Crimson may not be bigots. But their whiteness means something in and of itself, just as it did to the Black militants who drummed whites out of their ranks during the '60s civil rights movement. It wasn't that they thought...
...Cochin China. Journalist Gloria Emerson, who wrote with brilliant indignation about the war, pronounced bitterly a few years ago: "We are a people who drop the past, and then forget where it has been put." But the war in Viet Nam cannot be discarded with impetuous American blitheness. The civic and psychic mechanics don't work that way. The men (and as many as 7,500 women) who served in the war brought back with them pain and problems ? rage and guilt, sorrows and confusions ? that have gone ignored and unattended for years. Now, at last, they seem...