Word: civics
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...trying to impose my form of entertainment upon anybody else. Yes, I find reading newspapers enjoyable. But I also believe that reading the newspaper is more than recreation. In some sense, it's a civic responsibility. If you don't want to follow the news for enjoyment's sake, fine. But realize that the news is one of the most accessible, least expensive ways of becoming a better-informed voter, consumer, whatever. This is as true at Harvard -- where you can keep tabs on your favorite administrator--as in society at large, where you can read about zoning proposals...
Putnam's advice appeared to bear fruit last night as President Clinton stressed grassroots action and civic involvement in last night's address...
WANT TO SEE A CIVIC MONUMENT THAT NO CITY would ever want? Go to New Orleans and proceed to the intersection of Congress and Law streets, just a few blocks from the tourists' Latin Quarter. Walk anywhere in that neighborhood of trashed storefronts and blunt-shouldered housing projects. It won't take long to find walls that are spattered with grimy little craters. Those are bullet holes. Every one of them is an unofficial memorial to the mayhem that was daily life around there until not so long...
...projects had dropped 74%. A dozen dead bodies per annum is still no small problem. But if you don't happen to be one of them, it is cause enough for celebration. Lately, the neighborhood even sees its share of those spontaneous street parades that are defining outbreaks of civic life in New Orleans. What are people celebrating? Maybe just the return of their freedom to move around...
Four votes each went to Brancis H. Duehay '55, backed by the Cambridge Civic Association, and to last term's vice-mayor Sheila T. Russell, backed by the Cambridge: Alliance, Two-term mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, who is affiliated with neither party, voted for himself...