Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition is a dying one. Nowhere outside New England are you likely to find such meetings, and even in this region, bigger towns and cities like Cambridge have switched to the more manageable mayor-city manager form of government...
...meetings live on. The population has increased enough in some towns that the system has been modified--Lexington, for example, has representative town meetings, with 200 residents elected to speak for the other 35,000. Other smaller towns, like Bedford and Concord, still retain the pure "direct town meeting" form...
Town meetings have been criticized by many as a slow, unwieldy form of government, and they are. They come but once a year, and if a major issue arises at another time of the year the only recourse is to ignore it or call a special session...
Watching a town meeting can be mystifying - a basic item is the warrant which lists and describes the "articles" the meeting must vote on. Watching a town meeting without a warrant is as hopeless a task as trying to pick horses without a racing form, so sit next to someone with a sheaf of papers and ask to look...
...planned what kinds of programs we were going to put on and the amount of lead time we were going to allow to develop things of broader significance. We began several innovations: we created a whole new form of novel for television that broke the traditional time barrier, things you can't do in theater or in motion pictures. QB VII was the first major novel. It ran seven or eight hours. It's interesting to watch how we have moved into areas of social significance. There is a television movie coming up called The Cracker Factory...