Word: maynard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maynard School, Broadway and Windsor...
Even when they presided over healthy local economies, some black mayors became preoccupied by the needs of the middle class, black and white, at the expense of poorer constituents. During Maynard Jackson's two terms as mayor, from 1974 to 1982, Atlanta became a symbol of New South prosperity. In the 1970s, however, the number of black households in the city classified as poor actually increased by almost a fourth, to 31%. But Jackson jolted the local white establishment by aggressively demanding that black businesses get a share of city contracts. As a result, his tenure is so fondly remembered...
...like Stieglitz and "precious fairies" who "wear women's underwear." Yet an odd thing about regionalism, as Adams shows in amusing detail, is that it was the only art movement ever launched by a mass- circulation magazine. Regionalism's promoter was a small-time Kansas-born art dealer named Maynard Walker, who sensed that the resentments of America, battered by the Depression and bitterly suspicious of the East, could be harnessed in the field of art. Cultural populism would sell, he demonstrated, provided it were shown welling up from the undefiled American heartland...
...simplifies their bookkeeping for income tax purposes. Yet some customers have turned up their noses at the idea. "The quarrel I have with fixed charges is that when you go to a restaurant where the service is bad, you don't have a choice," said Los Angeles lawyer Maynard Davis, who frequently conducts business at restaurants...
Fresh Pond residents interviewed agreed with Maynard...