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...dating back to World War II, rising property values are affecting the economics of the city, and that in turn may mean the slow strangulation of neighborhood businesses like the Portuguese fish stores on Cambridge St. or the Italian bakeries near Vellucci's Insurance Agency. The change will be gradual, for few want to see total change, and many, like Sullivan, are happy with Cambridge the way it is now. But the courts and the state legislature may rip down the paper walls the council erects around the city's borders. Even if they don't, loopholes in council legislation...
...this is rather a thin deceit to cover the grim truth of Rosovsky's predicament, that few professors are willing to stray from their chosen academic niches. Indeed, the decline of Gen Ed in the last two decades testifies to the gradual disappearance of broad-based academicians willing to synthesize the range of material necessary to lead a survey course. The students, it seems, are not unaccompanied in their march toward specialization...
...teenager, Marshall recalls, he was taken by his father, a liberal intellectual, to see Martin Luther King's 1963 march on Washington. The experience propelled himwith his parents' encouragementinto the civil rights movement, and then a gradual evolution into antiwar radicalism. By 1968, Marshall was one of the most experienced student organizers in the U.S. The next year, after graduating from Cornell University, he was paid $20 a week by S.D.S. to organize radical antiwar movements on campuses up and down the East Coast. "I was told they had 10,000 pages...
...been no steady climb, no gradual evolution. The Crimson has moved in spurts, seeing five coaches in a decade, with only the last one achieving what the others sought. There was the brilliant 1973 season, with a 16th place finish in the NCAA s; there was the 1974 NCAA fiasco, when Harvard was disqualified for an entry card foul...
...cognizance of the realities of our country-the history, traditions and particular circumstances in which we find ourselves. The country is based on free enterprise and is therefore capitalistic. We have to accept that we will not bring about an immediate disruption of the economy; we can work in gradual phases until we get to our goal. In the civil service, of course, racialism will have to go. But it would be a very foolish man who would immediately take over and overthrow the system...