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...worried that New Orleans will become another Houston, big, ugly, impersonal, rich, obsessed with growth; and those who are worried that it will become another Savannah, old, genfeel, shabby, and dying. The two groups are constantly at war and their battles have for the last decade been the focal point of the intellectual life of the city; each claims to want economic growth within the framework of historic preservation, but in their hearts each seems to see the two forces, growth and preservation, as mutually exclusive. Thus the growth forces are always dreaming up new projects and tying to implement...
...well-organized. Edison has spent most of its time since the release of the environmental impact statement trying to discredit it, using all the muscle and "experts" it can muster to its cause. The residents, also concerned about the environmental impact, have chosen the power plant as the focal point for all their wrath against institutions they claim are out to turn their predominantly working class neighborhood into an upper class research center. And they feel that the plans will cut to the very heart of their way of life. From a speech at one of the meetings...
...prefers to talk about this movement--"an attack at the very quality of a group of people," he calls it--in terms of America rather than of Harvard. And for Leonard its focal point came last year in the DeFunis vs. Odegaard case, when a white man sued the University of Washington Law school for "reverse discrimination"--admitting blacks who he charged were less qualified than...
...just turned 40, discovered that "I can't do it as a solo," and that a great fall's pain is intense. "I lost it all," he says. "The way the act was constructed-not just the way it came about-Cher was the focal point. I never considered it a disadvantage because the act was a smash. But a straight man is a straight man is a straight man ..." A current girl friend, a 19-year-old Cal State psychology student named Ora Renet, adds: "Of course he's bewildered; someone has stepped on his sand...
...speech. From the red, white and blue bannered stage, James Meredith establishes the conference's tone. "This is a great opportunity to establish what the American consciousness is." And a massive, pro-busing march on May 17 proposed by Thomas Atkins, the head of NAACP in Boston, is the focal point of the conference...