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...this faith in "civic salvation" gave way to "salvation by knowledge," Gomes said. "The university was viewed as a citadel to deal with the problems...
Stanley Arnold is a businessman and active civic do-gooder from New York City who sought the Democratic nomination for Vice President in 1972, but who feels that, with the country's credit rating slipping as it is, there's no use being modest this time around. What America needs now, Arnold's campaign literature seems to be saying, is a good, deficit-dashing businessman...
Author Gates is best understood alongside the 19th century's great moral improvers. She is sister-in-arms to Melville, Hawthorne, Twain and Mrs. Stowe. All wanted their writing to better the public they were writing for-even when they despaired of civic improvement. Gates has yet to write a book that liberates as fully as it lacerates. But she cares about the national identity as no other living American novelist does. If she can steady her grip on her terrifying, transmogrifying wit, there may yet be a great novel in the already vast Gates canon...
Harvey said playing in the 11,000 seat Providence Civic Center did not put added pressure on the players, but rather "it made them too loose." Just the same, against Providence the Classics, Harvey said, "looked worse than in any game this season against a relatively good team--there was poor passing and not enough patience on offense...
...some of the observers packing the pews every Monday night, the tug of war that the independents and liberals have played weekly since reform Cambridge civic government began, seemed foolish. After all, as at least one observer marvelled while walking out of the chambers this week, if the mayor's position is such a ceremonial one, why all the fuss? Why can't one of the independents coax the other four into unanimity? And if the mayoralty of Cambridge really is in name only, why can't the liberals put four and one together and make five...