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...council voted six to four to hire Drury. All of the councillors endorsed by the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) backed the temporary clerk. The five Independent councillors originally supported Deputy City Clerk John. E Flynn, but Independent Councillor Sheila T. Russell changed her vote after the initial ballot...
...given their survivors a sense of mature purpose. The crisis turned an often hedonistic male subculture of bar hopping, promiscuity and abundant "recreational" drugs -- an endless party centered on the young and the restless -- into a true community, rich in social services and political lobbies, in volunteerism and civic spirit. It made civil rights issues suddenly vital to young middle-class men who had not previously expected to seek help from the government. It awakened many gay men, sick or well, to spiritual values. It partly bridged a widespread gap between gay men and lesbians, a chasm based on arcane...
There was something else, much more important, you should have known: that in a democracy, crises aren't resolved by men on horseback, even if they are from Texas and carry PCs in their saddlebags. Often the cry for leadership is an excuse for civic laziness, for not taking responsibility...
Hughes, who has been Time magazine's art critic for the past two decades, has penned an exciting and timely civic history. In one sumptuous two thousand year sweep, Hughes jettisons the deadness of prose that most readers associate with History and instead writes with the same electric, cobaltblue style that colors his art writing. While presenting an astonishing array of historical bric-a -brac, Hughes also welds together history and culture, politics and architecture, into an incisive textual amalgam...
Ruth Hibbard Romer, a founder of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) who helped reform the city's government in the early 1940s, died Saturday morning in a nursing home in Leeds, Mass...