Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...playground-parks are supposed to be outdoor, year-round rooms. Some rooms! Almost invariably the floors are asphalt, the walls are chain-link fences, and for furniture there is a never-changing assortment of head-chopping swings and lethal slides. Green areas are inevitably posted with KEEP OFF THE GRASS signs; when the signs are not obeyed, the grass wears down to dirt, seemingly overnight. When these outdoor rooms are also forced to function as community centers for all ages, chaos results...
...Grass, the designers decided, simply does not work; they replaced it with a variety of textured paving. Kids are going to climb all over the sculpture anyway; they made sure that it came with built-in handholds to make it easy for them. Ground-level planting beds are sure to be trampled; they were raised so that their rims serve as benches. Smooth surfaces invite childish scribbles; here they are rough to discourage them. Women are afraid of mugging; gay, indestructible plastic-globe lamps replaced the previous dim lighting. Finally, the existing plane trees were saved and new ones added...
...committee, Community Organization is Cambridge, will be responsible for organizing grass-roots support and interest for Cambridge projects financed under the Economic Opportunity...
...Cambridge Economic Opportunity committee, a citizens' group which coordinator the city's applications for OEO funds, has three "professional organizers" to raise grass-roots support...
...promise of its resources to create a genuine revolution before the Communists can dig in. If Viet Nam has reached Mao's Stage 3 of massed battles in the revolutionary manual, Thailand is still in Stage 1. That is the organization of insurrection of the grass roots-and the Thais have a chance to arrest it there. Though the gunfire now resounds in Viet Nam, the vital core on which all Southeast Asia depends, as a glance at any map shows, is in reality Thailand. So long as the Land of the Free remains in the province of free...