Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over 500 Cambridge residents, seated in eight caucuses under signs identifying the various neighborhoods, have come together to present their solutions to the increasingly aggravated housing shortage that plagues the whole city. It is an exercise in grass-roots democracy. The resolutions they have been offering represent three months of local organizing in the eight areas of the city and a genuine effort to put some muscle into community power...
...with the eight elderly ladies with pill-box hats, skirts that fall well below the knee, and Norman Rockwell faces who make up the majority of it, he has sat calmly through the agenda thus far, oblivious to the formal proceedings, talking quietly to the many people who come up to him, and smiling continuously at women all over the room...
...minute tirade--complete with insulting aside to the University--proves to be the most moving moment at the convention Everybody here had come for the same thing and in the same spirit. And everybody knows who the enemies are: MIT, Harvard, NASA, and the big outside realty companies who have all contributed to the spiralling rents so destructive to the poor and to those who live on fixed incomes. But amidst the factionalism imposed by the caucus arrangement and by the emphasis on the shades of shadows of differences in the wording of various resolutions, it is only Vellucci...
This is something of a laughter, but there is just the slightest possibility that Cornell will be emotionally down this week, following an exciting come-from-behind win over Rutgers and preceding next Saturday's showdown with Harvard. Penn has to be bursting with the unfamiliar pride of two straight wins, over Bucknell and Brown, but the Big Red will hold on for a 23-10 decision...
...some of the play's funniest and most important moments come as Moliere is pointing out what stupid situations people get themselves into when blinded by pride...