Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, she must continue to expand the horizons of hope for all Americans so that each may live with dignity and justice. There are 22 million poor who don't ask for the moon; just for a decent home, a decent job, a decent school and a decent neighborhood. The moon walk is a majestic milestone of man's quest for the stars, and it is a dramatic reminder of how far we have yet to go in the heavens as well as here on earth...
Gingham Checks. Robert Natkin likes to refer to his beginnings as "early nothing." His father was a rag dealer, and so bleak was the Chicago neighborhood in which he was born 38 years ago, he recalls, that it left him with a lasting sense of esthetic deprivation-a fact that probably accounts for the almost pretty profusion of colors in his present canvases. After studying at Chicago's Art Institute, where he was most influenced by the Postimpressionist collection, he found no galleries in which to display his work...
...office has also aided neighborhood action groups; CLAO staff attorneys, for example, did the legal work needed to draft Cambridge's Model Cities ordinance...
...anti-war groups failed to have enough valid signatures on its petitions; the other--the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam--got its petition on the ballot. The measure failed to pass, receiving about 39 per cent of the vote in the election
This elysian community actually exists. Its habitat is Africa's Kalahari Desert, a region so harsh and inhospitable that Western man would be hard put to eke out a living. But in that unforgiving neighborhood, the Bushmen, a golden-skinned, short-statured and cheerful people, have been living contentedly for thousands of years as hunter-gatherers subsisting on what nature provides without resort to agriculture. In Man the Hunter (Aldine Publishing Co., $6.95), a recent symposium of studies on primitive societies, Harvard Anthropologists Irven DeVore and Richard B. Lee note that "cultural Man has been on earth for some...