Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many recent novels and narratives have pictured Europe a dying continent, its citizens politically and intellectually stagnant. Arthur Koestler's Age of Longing and William Shirer's Mid-Century Journey, rather gloomy studies of Western Europe, have challenged the optimistic Crane Brinton. Hoping to find Europe not Entirely decayed, Brinton travelled to France and England searching "an antithesis to the thesis of the prophets of doom and the bellyaching intellectuals." Brinton's candid predisposition impugns the value of his evidence, for the reader can never decide just how much unfavorable information is purposely ignored...
...think Curry's his own man. He has to do what Crane tells him to do," Atkinson asserts...
Five men on the CCA slate, however, deserve full support. Of top caliber is Edward Crane, a Harvard magna, Phi Bete, and Law School graduate. Crane's great interest in Cambridge civic affairs--apparent since his undergraduate days when he wrote his thesis on the city-manager plan, even though that was then a system new to Cambridge--his intimate knowledge of the city, and his cagerness to make it better, qualify him as the most outstanding example of an experienced councillor...
...Backing Crane on many issues is Mayor Joseph A. DcGugliclmo, whose shrewdness makes him an important asset. It was DeGugliclmo at one time a supporter of former city manager John B. Atkinson who decided with Crane that after ten years Atkinson had grown dictatorial in his job, not even consulting the Council on important matters. DcGugliclmo and Crane forced the departure of Atkinson and replaced him with John Curry, a former school teacher who has administrated the city's affairs well, even lowering the tax rate...
...fifth man we support, Marcus Morton, is a moving force in the Cambridge Civic Unity Committee, which works to smooth out differences between ethnic groups. After two years and an enviable record on the Council, Morton decided to retire, but Crane and DcGugliclmo have wisely asked him back...