Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a triple tragedy in this. Most important, it will mean the flight of profits out of the community -- probably into the suburbs as soon as the black entrepreneur can afford to use the profits to buy a split-level. It will also mean the loss of the entrepreneur's talent--for his creative skill will go into making his own fortune, not into helping the community...
...finally, it will mean the loss of an opportunity to develop real resources for the community's own self-help effort...
...committee's moderation of its original proposals "does not mean that we are backing down, just that we are trying to identify the problems as they really are and to eliminate rhetoric," Hamilton said...
...mysterious, silent schmurz expires before the man does. But before the curtain falls, four others like him are crawling like rubber-suited crocodiles, silent and ominous, into the room. And what that may mean is anyone's guess...
...mere fact that WGBH wanted to cover a demonstration doesn't mean we'll say 'yes,' if we don't think it has anything to do with Harvard's educational function," Ford said...