Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...street--a saloon-infested, neon-gaudy strip called Roosevelt Ave., deep in the heart of Elmwood, Queens--the people muddle on, oblivious to the noise and to everything else. On the side streets beckon the bars, little Irish holes-in-the-wall where the Hugheses and McAfees gather to put away their beers and spill their guts, and flashy dives where the Puerto Ricans and Blacks, so new to the neighborhood, huddle in self-protection. This may be Queens, but it is really New York, a microcosm of the entire city. It is a place where the races are realizing...
Early on most Friday evenings while many Harvard students are resting up for big nights of partying, a certain number of undergraduates gather together in a brightly colored room in the University Lutheran Church, a modern building next to Pinnochio's Pizza, for a somewhat less likely weekend activity. Every week, about 50 Harvard and Radcliffe students join together in that room to praise Jesus Christ...
...between halves of nationally televised NBA games, a whole new world will be opened. So buy this book for your father or your kid brother for his birthday. Like all sports books, they'll read it once, most likely enjoy it, and then put it on the shelf to gather dust, for it is, after all, just another sports book...
...many the farthest trip required for research is probably only to Widener Library. But simply putting together a 50 or 100 page thesis can be an overwhelming job for many students. Nancy Rosenblum has advice for thesis writers worried about what to do with the material they gather...
...wanted to say to writers, artists and other creative people that we valued their contributions, that they were important in the community," Haughey recalls. "I also felt that if we could attract important artists, they could gather around them young Irish artists and establish centers of creativity." Touring Ireland, TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer found little indication as yet of any such cultural renaissance. But Haughey's notion of a permanent tax holiday for artists has at least stopped the drain of home-grown talent...