Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FATHER LIKES to tell a joke about a man desperately searching a corner of a dark room illuminated only by a small lamp. When asked what he is doing, the man says that he has lost his wallet. Did he drop it in the corner? "No," the man replies. "But the light is better here...
...rush to identify and combat racism, we've all become a bit like that man searching in the small, well-lit corner of an otherwise dark room. We search the familiar places even if what we want to find is nowhere nearby. That's what has been happening in Forsyth County, Georgia...
...THAT HARVARD has offered on land occupied by the St. Paul's parish rectory and parking lot at the corner of Mount Auburn and DeWolfe Streets includes plans to build some subsidized housing on the site. The University's main priority remains more housing for its own affiliates. But its willingness to provide some low-income housing--in the Cambridge market it has helped to inflate--speaks for the efforts of the neighborhood and Harvard groups that have pressured the University on its development plans in recent years...
...light of these memories, it is particularly disturbing to see the Kennedy name attached to the monstrosity at the corner of Soldiers Field Road and JFK street. Kennedy Park--it is still hard to utter--was once a vacant lot utilized by Harvard students from River to Quad for touch football games and other irreverent delinquencies. Some of the Kennedys may even have honed their paaass-caaatching talents there in their undergraduate days...
...Huntington, located just around the corner from Symphony Hall, is the natural rival for the A.R.T: it is the professional theater in residence at Boston University and the only other repertory theater in the Boston area with the resources to compete in the cultural arena. Founded just two years after the A.R.T. moved into town, the Huntington offers productions in which the writer takes top billing and the director is just another guy on the program...