Word: inns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EARLY JULY, shortly before the Democratic Convention, Simon and Schuster published Julian Bond's first books. A Time to Act, subtitled. "The Movement in Politics," and sponsored as coming out party for the book at the White House Motor Inn in Atlanta. Twenty or so invited guests had already settled into the cocktails and hot and old hors d'oeuvres by the time Bond arrived, walking in on cat-lithe feet and wearing a vested blue suit. Just back from a trip politicking for George McGovern and about to leave on another. Bond made a relaxed beeline...
...What people call love is impossible except as a joke...between two strangers meeting accidentally at an inn...
...DECISION BY Kanavos Enterprises last Friday to proceed with foundation work for a 19-story Holiday Inn adjacent to the Kennedy Library site is but another example of the obstinance which has characterized most building projects in and around Harvard Square. For the past five years, the Square area has been drifting steadily away from the concept of community Local shopowners and businessmen have abandoned the Square in the face of skyrocketing rents and stepped-up insurance rates. In their stead have come more restauranteurs, ice cream vendors and bankers--all of whom cater to a transient population like that...
...solution posed by Kanavos Enterprises, however, does more to aggravate this problem than to ease it. Harold Kanavos, the president of Kanavos Enterprises, maintains that criticism of the designed 19-story inn from "a small group" is "based on vague, uncertain and ambiguous aesthetic concepts and preferences." The small group to which Kanavos alludes includes the Harvard Square Business Association, the head of the Cambridge Planning Department, the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, the Harvard Square Task Force, the Sierra Club, the Cambridge Conservation Commission and the Planning for People Committee. And it takes no genius to envision the oddity...
Both the garage and the Holiday Inn are part of an avid rush by local landowners to cast a plastic gloss of commercial development over the Square. Already--a giant craft and specialty mall, nested on nearly half a block parallel with Holyoke Center, is half complete. Nearly 40 small businesses have been expelled by soaring rents and the commercial muscle of concessions like McDonald's and Baskin Robbins. Max Wasserman, the most innovative and prosperous of the Harvard Square landlords, has extensively remodeled more than a score of his properties. All developers expect the JFK center to energize...