Word: club
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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April 28, 1979--Despite only club-status funding, the Harvard volleyball team upends Northeastern to take the New England crown...
...much to renew. The people who could have used the money--the 40 per cent of the town's population who were black and restricted mostly to the worst housing--didn't have the political power to make a money grab. Whites kept them out of power with country-club nominations and at-large elections. But whites and blacks maintained strong neighborhoods, decent schools (at least after 1969's integration), and a widespread community pride based pretty much on the fortunes of the high school football team. A good place to bring up kids...
...Despite all that, this class has excelled in every endeavor, academic, athletic and otherwise," Holway told the audience which gathered in the middle of the Cambridge Common for the ceremony. Both the girls and boys basketball teams won state championships this year, and the drama club captured the title in a regional championship...
...much to renew. The people who could have used the money--the 40 per cent of the town's population who were black and restricted mostly to the worst housing--didn't have the political power to make a money grab. Whites kept them out of power with country-club nominations and at-large elections. But whites and blacks maintained strong neighborhoods, decent schools (at least after 1969's integration), and a widespread community pride based pretty much on the fortunes of the high school football team. A good place to bring up kids...
...greatest exertions. Communications across the barriers of attitude become difficult. Too many Americans cherish a doctrinaire repugnance for the free market. On the other side, too many business leaders and conservative ideologues, often oblivious to criticism, tend to talk and listen only to members of their own club. Meantime, the separate tribes of special interests fiercely pursue their own advantage, increasingly unwilling to compromise with one another...