Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking for their lost Mecca, folk followers never give up searching for their musical ideal. Humming Judy Collins' tunes under their breath, they turn desperately to FM radio and infrequent concerts, and on sunny days even perform strange rituals with guitars under the trees in the Yard and Cambridge Common. Initiates fervently insist the only true folk music is live folk music...
Cross the street, however, and you're into another world. If the Public Garden is the pinstripe, the Boston Common, originally set aside for cattle-grazing, is the shirtsleeves. Skateboards fly down the hill near the State House, children wade in the Frog Pond, pigeons wander where they please, and the Moonie troops hawk their religion on the sidewalk...
...attitude toward grass, common lawn variety, points up the difference between the two parks. Sit down on the sod at the Public Garden, and it will be only minutes before a mounted policeman asks you to leave. Stray off the path at the Common, and no one, not even the pigeons, will notice...
...Public Garden is full of beautiful statues, including a classic George Washington on horseback pose near the Arlington Street end. The statuary pickings are leaner at the Common except for one Civil War scene directly across from the state House...
...strongly believed the Faculty and students should have more directly to say about the way the University runs," Levin says now, and the report echoed his, and other committee members' convictions. "We are persuaded that present arrangements for exchange of ideas between students and faculty on matters of common educational concern leave much to be desired," it read, and it goes on to envision a set of student-faculty committees as forums for open discussion of issues affecting student life and education. The Fainsod Committee thus called for a student voice in shaping policy related to student housing, extracurricular activities...