Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those days the city of Cambridge was small. "American frontier history can be told largely in terms of cattle," Samuel Eliot Morison writes in Three Centuries of Harvard. "The present Cambridge Common is merely the apex of a great triangle of cow pasture extended to the borders of the township." Nearly 350 years later, Cambridge is big and crowded--102,000 people packed into six square miles, the third highest population density in America...
...general, the fate of Harvard sports in '78-'79 can probably best be summarized by the men's and women's crews, where disappointment, especially at the Sprints, was the common though new order...
...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...
...similar signs of indifference and disunity on the eve of World War II. Pearl Harbor galvanized the nation at last into comparative unity and necessary action. In fact, World War II may have been the last epoch when Americans acted in moral harmony with one an other. An overriding common necessity imposed sacrifices - rationing at home, service and possible death abroad - upon a people more or less unified in their perception of the evil to be conquered...
...more prudent and intelligent energy policy demands reactivation of what M. Carl Holman, president of the National Urban Coalition, calls "a sense of The Green." The earliest towns and villages in the U.S., Holman notes, "usually set aside some land at the center that was held in common, called The Green. But to day, people have difficulty feeling that they have things in common: that there are group interests that override individual needs...