Word: civic
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...sentences of his minute-long report disclose to his viewers that authorities had decided the man could not have had anything to do with the Atlanta killings. Atlantans were even more irked at a Washington Post story last week that described their city as "about to crack" under the civic and racial pressures caused by the killings. "Where do they get that stuff?" asked Assemblyman Brooks...
True, they flew into town aboard private jets, and both had the customary squads of professional chums. But the sold-out performance by Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. at Atlanta's Civic Center last week was a starry burst of altruism: the $148,000 in concert receipts went into municipal coffers drained by the costs of investigating the murders of 20 black children. Halfway through the three-hour benefit -in which Native Georgian Burt Reynolds and Singer Roberta Flack appeared-Sinatra declared his "sadness and love" for Atlantans "frightened by day and doubly frightened by night." Furthermore, Sinatra...
Hamilton took the first major post-Olympic confrontation in February, when he won the American championship, and Santee finished second. Last week, at the World Figure-Skating Championships in the Hartford, Conn., Civic Center, Santee set out to even the score. But Hamilton came out on top once again, winning the World Championship by the thinnest of margins. Santee placed second, Igor Bobrin of the Soviet Union third. As the three finalists mounted the victory stand, Hamilton and Santee treated their international audience to a good old American high-five handclasp, then stood side by side, gold and silver medals...
Other panel members were more willing to see the University's position. "The University claims to be pursuing a public interest, and the City of Cambridge claims to be pursuing a public interest," Peter M. Lange, associate professor of European Studies and former president of the Cambridge Civic Association, said, adding. "Strangely enough, these two public interests are not the same...
...Hour of Our Death takes on the last stage of life. The book is a majestically ambitious attempt to isolate, define and synthesize a thousand years of attitudes about dying, burying, grieving and remembering. Ariès has burrowed through centuries of literature, folklore, religious history and civic and private documents. He has filled his eye with cemetery architecture, iconography, art and funeral kitsch. His conclusions: a millennium of living and dying in the West can be understood in five models...