Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seen none of the instant success of such projects as Boston After Dark. The choice of the South End site had been a result of something more than pecuniary considerations. Samshak had grown up in the Castle Square area and had "kind of an emotional link" to the neighborhood...
...this intersection of the artistic and the social provides also the intersection of the Atma and the south End, a poor but integrated neighborhood of Irish, Puerto Ricans, and blacks which lies next to Roxbury. Samshak realized the kind of problems that would arise before he set up shot near the ghetto. When racial disturbances flared last summer, he still produced the racial-crisis oriented Dutchman and Slave. During the summer he held acting workshops for the youth of the community...
...address-if a rather important one-in the city's Third Precinct. In addition to the White House, the Third includes the State Department, the Executive Office Building and several other bastions of the Federal Government. To judge from the police blotter, it is a pretty dangerous neighborhood: according to latest figures, crime there has jumped 26.2% in a single year. There were almost 400 crimes recorded in that period-62 of them involving at least the threat of bodily harm. In fact, crime in the White House precinct slightly outstripped that of Washington as a whole...
Gentle Rhythm. Patience, understanding and the gentle rhythm of life have been almost the only real treatment at Geel. Now Matheussen is planning to set up several neighborhood treatment centers where patients will meet regularly for group therapy, schooling and vocational training. This additional therapy may be crucial to Geel's survival because modern life is at last changing the town's stable, close-knit medieval patterns. Factory jobs are replacing the farm work that is suitable for many patients. Trucks and cars thunder through the square, their drivers not accustomed to watching for dazed people who forget...
...these intensive-treatment neighborhood centers may mean that more patients will recover, so that families will be required to surrender their charges. That will present Matheussen with a special problem of diplomacy, since many do not want to let their boarders go. "Families adjust," he sighs. "They get attached to their patients...