Word: knows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Easterner's (Passaic, N.J.) eye. Birnbaum was immediately struck by "how much of the California legend was true-the climate, the geography, the hordes of new Californians shucking off old ways and values and experimenting with the new"-sometimes compulsively, sometimes casually. "The more I got to know San Francisco, the more intrigued I became with its life style, its easy atmosphere, the narcissism of the city...
...week. Or "A Wife of Nashville's" relations with her cooks. Or the bitter introversion of old Aunt Munsie: a one-time slave, she comes to realize that to Dr. Tolliver's children-whom she raised-she is Aunt Munsie only in the village of Thornton (where people know one another's real place anyway...
...People used to take bets who'd get to Central Square first, Harvard or M.I.T. It looks like M.I.T.'s going to win that race, they own mostly everything on the other side of Central Square now. You and I know that's not going to be the end of it, either, Harvard's in there too. Between them and M.I.T. half the land in Cambridge is taken up and you know what that means to everybody here. You're all at the mercy of those two schools. They've brought lots of students here, swelled the population and forced...
...people running those schools would like to see Cambridge change, they want to bring all sorts of modern industry into the city, with scientists and technicians and drive you out. Look at the NASA center. You know they're taking up all that land and they're not going to be paying any taxes to the city. No they're not going to pay any taxes, you're going to have to take care of that. You know there have been five tax increases since they announced they were going to build the NASA center here. There are already eight...
Ewart Guinier, professor of Afro-American Studies and chairman of the department, said Friday he did not "know how many people are concentrating in the department, since the Registrar hasn't given us the figure yet." Guinier added, however, that no one who applied for admission to the department and was interviewed had been rejected...