Word: grass
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...John D. Rockefeller IV, the son of John D. III, is by far the best known and most political of the Cousins. "Jay" went to West Virginia in 1964 for an "American grass-roots experience" and has been there ever since. After two years as a poverty worker, he switched to politics because he figured it was the way "to get things done." From the state legislature he became secretary of state in 1968, then suffered a setback in 1972 when he lost his bid for Governor. "Jay" is now president of West Virginia Wesleyan College, a small, coeducational Methodist...
...council is split between five conservative independents who generally back business and real estate and three Cambridge Civic Association councilors who take a middle of the road, protect-the-environment approach. Saundra Graham, a continually militant councilor, has formed her own political base, the Grass Roots Organization...
...keeping with University policy of fostering class spirit, most freshmen will live in Harvard Yard, the oldest part of the University. The ivy-covered buildings, lush green lawn and shady elms make the Yard an attractive place to start a four-year stint. People lounge on the grass, frisbees fly and dogs run loose, painting an idyllic picture of college for the newcomers. Enjoy the elms now. Many are suffering with Dutch elm disease and may have to be cut down. And don't worry about stepping in dog shit. There's amazingly little considering the number of dogs...
...other cities with large university populations, students became involved in local campaigns--in Berkeley, Madison and Ann Arbor they elected radical city governments. Cambridge City Councilor Saundra Graham may have had something like that in mind for her Grass Roots Organization, but the GRO's candidates--except for her--did miserably their first time out. Individual Harvard students have gone in to electoral politics quite frequently--McGovern's pre-convention pollsters in 1972 were Harvard seniors--and back in 1968, Harvard students ran an anti-war referendum campaign. But even then it was clear that Cambridge was not Berkeley. Even...
...image of yourself dressed in Renaissance robes, poring over an illuminated manuscript in an Erasmus-like tower. You lean over and look out the window at the little groups of women walking to market and children playing tag, a couple of lovers smiling at one another in the grass, and a frown comes over your face, you shake your head, and, with a slight disdainful grunt, you return to pore over your work...Then, as you are trying to concentrate, you are pushed by someone muttering to himself, "Where the hell are the psychology books?" and you are back...