Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense, than any of the upheavals that have rent American cities in the hot summers of the '60s. In the stark statistics of death and destruction, it was less than cataclysmic. But all the other ghetto uprisings have been the result of chance or bad judgment, some random local incident or emotional shock, such as Martin Luther King's murder, that put the spark to the fuse. Cleveland's battle was planned...
...three are dead and two in jail. Ahmed Evans was charged with first-degree murder, along with lesser offenses, such as the possession of narcotics and an automatic rifle. If the snipers hoped to cause outright insurrection in Cleveland, they did not succeed. If they wanted merely to create local turmoil and national apprehension, they succeeded all too well...
Considering Cambridge's large number of practicing artists, the one sculpture or one arrangement of sculptures could be amended for Brattle Square to an ever-changing exhibit of the works of local artists. Certainly this would make Brattle Square more of a total environment. The attention and viewers attracted to the works would complement the commercial interests and cultural activities of the surroundings...
...council may possible consider some "unfinished business" on its agenda, including a proposed amendment to the local zoning laws that would permit the construction of Cambridge Plaza, a high-rise office and apartment complex near the site of the future Kennedy Memorial Library...
...meeting. Maybe 50 people sitting, and another 25 standing in a circle around them. They began to talk about The Man--the police--coming to get them, and what to do about it. The consensus of the group seemed to be for a symbolic march to the local jail with a demand to be arrested, or if not that, simply sitting there and allowing the police to remove them...