Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...executive secretary of the CCA, and a regular observer of the Council in action, insists, however, that there have been frequent and important concessions by both sides paving the way for major steps. These seem to have been made informally in discussions between individual members and perhaps with the Mayor as mediator...
...Mayor: The ceremonial head of the city, he is elected from the City Council by a vote of its members, and presides at its meetings. Except as parliamentarian, however, he possesses no position of leadership, as his vote counts no more than that of any other Councillor, and since he has only a Councillor's responsibility for initiating action. By 18 years' precedent, Cambridge mayors serve only one two-year term...
...down" periods usually mean a hostile politician in the Mayor's chair, a politician who makes the going tough for the University, and then capitalizes on the natural jealousy of his constitutents for the rich college...
...production at the Little Opera House, on a two-week furlough from off-Broadway, is powerfully effected. The full plight of a doctor who discovers the town's health baths to be polluted, is relentlessly revealed in successive episodes from the time his brother, the mayor, first suggests that he is a "traitor to society." At the end of the second act a tremendous and truly exciting feeling of futility engulfs the viewer as the doctor attempts to explain the danger and his own remedial plan to a mass meeting where his audience is stacked against him. Agitators...
Miller's adaption is admirable but not wholly successful. There often remains a curious juxtaposition of colloquial speech and elevated pronouncement, as when the doctor tells the mayor, "Don't jump on me with that," and then adds, "The trouble with you is that your impressions are blunted...