Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, councilors are pledging to keep up the fight to preserve historic buildings and the character of neighborhoods like Riverside near Mather House. Residents there perceive "Harvard as a predatory animal," says one community activist.
In his 68 years, Vernon A. Walters has been a deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a globe-trotting troubleshooter and special aide to seven Presidents. A gifted interpreter who speaks seven foreign languages,* he helped arrange the 1970 negotiations between Henry Kissinger and the North Vietnamese that led...
The boutiques and concept cafes along Haight Street are sometimes under the proprietorship of veterans of those heady days, but more likely they are the ventures of mercantile types who sense retail opportunity in buying into the Haight's historic consciousness. It's a decent place for a walk and...
Besides O'Neill, the seat has been represented by three of state's most influential Democrats of this century, including John F. Kennedy '40; James Michael Curley, the four-term mayor of Boston; and John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the Boston political boss and the former president's grandfather. Observers...
Even as they wrangled over motions and amendments last week, the delegates knew that the real struggle for survival will come with next spring's elections. For Mitterrand to pursue his policies with any effectiveness through 1988, his party must win about 30% of the popular vote next March. That...