Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holcombe: "In Harvard Yard there is a statue of the founder of this University. That statue was placed there by workers. The buildings of Harvard were constructed, the trees were pulled down, the land was ploughed up and foundations were put in by workers. Workers were here long before the vast bureaucracy of managers and administrators. When will we obtain the right to be heard, to be consulted on issues that affect our lives? When will we take our rightful place as members of the Harvard community...
...modern and ancient, traditional and futuristic. East Texas, for example, is as Deep South in feeling as Savannah, Ga.; West Texas is truly western. Miami Beach is as much a suburb of New York?or Havana?as a Florida city. Yet there is much that knits this land and holds it together, with its own special character and flavor and language. If the South cannot be totally explored, it can at least be seen as reality, not as legend...
...Southern emotion is a sense of imminent victory-over circumstances, poverty and history. The feeling of inferiority is evaporating. Jimmy Carter, whatever the outcome in November, has already given the area a surge of confidence. Throughout the South there is a fresh appreciation of place and love of the land, an almost metaphysical feeling that they are moving at the heart of the world...
Seventeenth century England was much taken by Sir Walter Raleigh's description of an American demi-Eden where it was forever either spring or summer. This balmy land of the blest, he said, lay on the 35th parallel of north latitude-in present-day North Carolina. Rallying to Raleigh, for whom North Carolina named its capital, Southerners have ever since believed in their hearts that their region is kindlier, lovelier and more conducive to the good life than any other patch of earth this side of paradise, and not without reason...
Another popular theory, the Harvard-MIT Polarity Formulation, states that because Central Square serves as the buffer zone, the proverbial no-man's land, separating Harvard and its real estate from the Kendall Square university, neither school has a real interest in Central. Consequently, nothing ever gets done there. In fact, each resident has his own Theory, and there are some mighty strange hybrids, too. The Red Line Theory has always been a favorite (the Red Line's next-to-last stop is in Central Square, you see, and the subway disgorges all sorts of unsavory non-residents there...