Word: concorde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Concord or in Manchester, signs for Reagan and Carter are hard to find. Clearly, the focus of attention has shifted to tight and emotional local races more likely to produce a high turnout. The signs for the state campaigns abound: Gallen vs. Thompson for governor, Durkin vs. Rudman for Senate, all the way down to Francis Sheine for Governor's Council...
While other cities would probably not have to eviscerate their budgets, they would still face arterial cuts. One way to prevent municipal harakiri would be charging for services or transferring the services covered by property taxes to other assessments (Concord is considering increasing its water fees by $100,000)--thereby defeating the purpose of the proposition...
...disappointing. Throughout the book, he indulges in long asides describing the literary currents and political conflicts in Hawthorne's day, yet he rarely makes any attempt to place Hawthorne in their midst. He offers no interpretation of Hawthorne's relationship to the Transcendentalists, only observing that "the politics of Concord, transcendental or otherwise, were never to Hawthorne's liking." Bronson Alcott, one of the most famous of the transcendental teachers, lived down the street from Hawthorne's home in Concord; yet the most telling detail that Mellow discloses about the relationship between the two men is that Hawthorne's wife...
Arthur truly believes she is another Thoreau, gone off to the wilderness to find out something profound and then write it down. But she has the formula reversed; Thoreau, like everyone else who lived in 19th century Concord, was brilliant, and he went off to the woods so he'd have time to ruminate over the thoughts he already...
...closed meeting at the Concord St. armory, the union voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike but not to walk out immediately...