Word: civics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge reaction to the impact statement was mixed, with many civic leaders withholding comment until they obtain a copy of the full report or discuss it with others...
...civic group also said the report is vague, since it lists potential development sites, but gives no estimates of the University's expansion needs...
Harvard prepared the report without first soliciting comment from Cambridge civic groups...
...source close to the Cambridge Civic Association, which responded to the report last month, said yesterday that the group "toned down" its statement...
...other hand the Cambridge Civic Association Councilors, the so-called liberal councilors, frequently from Harvard-oriented backgrounds, could be counted on to support the institutions. Recent times have seen a reversal of this, and few people, including the councilors involved, can really explain why. Possibly, the activist, concerned and frequently liberal citizen has lost faith in his ability to deal with the larger issues of poverty, the War and inflation and is increasingly turned inward, to a scale that he can have some impact on, and that has some meaning to him. Increasingly, also, the great liberal institutions have fallen...