Word: kevin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kevin Leach...
...basic qualities of Boston City Hall. Anyone who passes that behemoth across the street from Fanueil Hall can tell. It's big, overbearing, and perfectly expressive of the impersonality and arrogance of modern government. Someone not up on their architectural history might well think if was built for Kevin White...
...course, such a thought would irk Hizzoner to no end. City Hall was actually built during the the mayoralty of John Collins, at a time when Boston's government was fairly aloof and insensitive. When Kevin White was elected mayor in 1967, as part of a wave of young and progressive big-city mayors that included New York's John Lindsay and Cleveland's Cart Stokes, he worked hard to change that. He developed an innovative program of "little city halls" designed to increase communication between neighborhoods and city government. With the array of grassroots public interest organizations around today...
...hands clean, the machine's conduct when promoting the mayor's hand picked candidates in assorted city council and state legislature races has been not only inept--his candidates are 0-for 14 in such races--but often unethical. Several of his surrogates are clearly backs one of the "Kevin Seven," his city council slate, has since been indicted for passing bad checks...
...Boston seriously as long as the power structure of City Hall is used so blatantly for political purposes. White has reached the point where he is more concerned with the means for getting re-elected than with actually governing the city. Boss White is rapidly overshadowing Mayor White. The Kevin White of 1967 would never have believed...