Word: elms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thrusting Towers. Los Angeles is an amalgam of disparate communities so bewildering that even natives do not know-or care-where one begins and the other leaves off. The city proper is complex enough, an agglomeration of 60-odd communities as different as elm-and-pine-shaded Encino in the San Fernando Valley and Venice, a tawdry oceanside spot ten miles to the south. The county's 75 other incorporated cities may be either outlying areas or, like opulent Beverly Hills, an enclave within the central city. Most U.S. cities have a single downtown core, but Los Angeles...
...first major revolt of the nineteenth century, in 1807, was also a gastronomic protest. The Rotten Cabbage Rebellion consisted of a large student assembly under a tree which still stands near Hollis Hall, later to be christened Rebellion Elm. They pleaded for a change in the quality of the Harvard menu, especially in the cabbage. But the revolt resulted only in 17 expulsions--the food remained mainly unchanged...
...dozen years later, the freshmen and sophomores staged a massive battle in the dining room, pelting each other with fruit and vegetables. When several were suspended, students congressed once again under Rebellion Elm, and the entire sophomore class decided to resign from the College. They recanted within two weeks, but not all were readmitted. This effort also inspired a poetic outpouring: a poem in four cantos, "Rebelliad; or Terrible Transactions at the Seat of the Muses...
...last and most violent riot of the nineteenth century resulted in a number of customary dismissals and a few civil arrests. It began when a freshman was punished by the administration of his tutor. His loyal classmates gathered under Rebellion Elm and started two months of rioting in their brother's defense. They converged upon the lodgings of the tutors, smashing their windows and furniture, hurled missiles through the chapel, and hanged President Josiah Quincy in effigy...
...State House in early June was tentatively suggested. The group is also expected to provide anti-highway signs and help raise money for the proposed study. Its present empoverished financial condition was emphasized, however, when Mrs. Michael Benfield, a local community leader in the Brookline-Elm St. area, pleaded for $50 to pay the rent for "Save Our Cities" temporary headquarters...