Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A COOL summer night in New York City, August 1976. Jimmy Carter swept into Madison Square Garden to make his acceptance speech and a new era was born; the throng cheered its leader as the convention came to a close, then headed for the waiting cabs and late night parties...
After last week's meeting, several convention members said they were not considering giving Vellucci their votes, as they did two years ago, in return for a promise to support the Convention on several key issues. Thus, the outcome of the election remains a mystery.
The nine-member council is composed of four members of Cambridge Convention '77, a liberal slate, four more-or-less conservative independents, and A1 Vellucci. And any one of them could become mayor--if he or she gets a clear majority of votes from the rest of the council.
Tuesday afternoon, in the elegant, ornately chandeliered lobby of the Palmer House, and in the nearby Conrad Hilton, English professors in herringbone jackets, with copies of Goethe or Günter Grass occasionally protruding from their pockets, chatter about irony, ambiguity and Erich Auerbach's theories of mimesis. A...
Downstairs two middle-aged professors drift past the job center, speaking of the relationship between metaphors and real life. A girl with waist-length hair passes them with tears in her eyes. The convention is almost over, and she has failed to arrange a single interview. "There's got...