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...distemper." So many demands are made of the all too vulnerable system that it is in danger of breaking down. Or, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, writes: "Even our sense of peoplehood grows uncertain as ethnic assertions take their implacable toll on the civic assumption of unity." Like monarchy in the 19th century, adds Moynihan, liberal democracy "is where the world was, not where it is going...
When Dylan walked on, about thirty minutes into the show, the energy in the Civic Center surged. Wearing a black vest and a dark, flower-adorned sombrero, Dylan acknowledged the crowd's standing ovation with a small wave. He lit into "When I Paint My Masterpiece," an ironic song, loosely based on the scene in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night where Dick Diver wanders around Rome and decides he will never be a great writer...
Coates was once endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association but sources said that the Independent councilors want him to run to draw votes away from Saundra Graham, a black incumbent city councilor who is a strong advocate of rent control. Those sources cite Coates's position on rent control as evidence of his sympathy with the city's landlords and big real estate developers...
When Cambridge voters went to the polls two years ago for a municipal election it was for what Councilor Alfred E. Velluci called "a hot election." The liberals, backed by the Cambridge Civic Association, were calling for the firing of the city manager and police chief...
Shortly after the election, the council must undertake two tasks: selecting one of its members to serve as a titular "mayor" who will chair the council's meetings (and do little else other than attend civic functions) and choosing a city manager who will administer the business of the city...