Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Flynn attacks neighborhood racism, for example, he is chasing a ghost, because the tensions at the grass roots level are more often a product of neighborhoods instinctively retreating inward to prevent change than they are of conscious racism per se. The real problem, as The Globe series bluntly showed, is downtown and at places like Harvard, where Blacks have been shunted off toward lower level, lower paying work...
Hart began the week by stepping out of character. Flying into Houston on Sunday, the candidate, usually reserved and aloof, stretched out on the ground near a runway and chewed on a blade of grass. Hours later he led his entourage to Gilley's, the watering hole made famous by the movie Urban Cowboy. There he knocked back a long-necked bottle of beer while having his boots shined, danced enthusiastically with four women and had to be dissuaded by his staff from trying a John Travolta-style ride on the mechanical bull. Apparently, Hart simply decided to give...
Scattered grass-roots attempts to aid black families also seem hopeful. In Los Angeles, Dr. James Mays, a black physician, has set up an adopt-a-family program: each of 200 enrolled families is being provided with legal, medical and other services by a volunteer group. Washington recently put 40 welfare mothers through an experimental eight-month job-training course; most found employment. Five years ago, South Boston High School started encouraging its student mothers not to drop out; a pediatric nurse spends two days a week at the school dispensing advice on bringing up babies...
Bass and Arthur R. Kroeber '84 placed them there after weighting them down with gravel. Nevertheless, several of the surviving penguins migrated from the grass to the facade of Robinson, the gate fronting Quincy St. and the trees in the quadrangle...
...eight years since the death of Mao, Deng has installed the revolutionary notion that people produce more if offered incentives. Without upheaval or fanfare, without blatant feuds at the top or bloody purges at the grass roots, Deng and his pragmatic colleagues have brought about the most sweeping reforms ever attempted under the banner of Marxism. They have transformed the nation's agricultural system, awakened its cultural life and quintupled the income of millions of peasants. Their ambitions, moreover, seem almost limitless: they aim to quadruple the gross national product, double the nation's output of energy, and raise...