Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individually and actively in solving the nation's problems?a standard passage in presidential oratory?but he did it in personal, vivid terms: "We need the energies of our people, enlisted not only in grand enterprises, but more importantly in those small, splendid efforts that make headlines in the neighborhood newspaper instead of the national journal. With these, we today can build a great cathedral of the spirit, each of us raising it one stone at a time, as he reaches out to his neighbor, helping, caring, doing...
Whether "art" or not, the show is marvelously evocative and dramatically presented. The first galleries, filled with old pictures and resounding to taped melodies of spirituals and ragtime, depict Harlem as it was in the early years of the century: a prosperous white neighborhood. By 1905, Negroes from the South had begun to trickle in-living then, as now, in appallingly overcrowded quarters. In those far-off days, as recorded by James Vanderzee, a gifted but little-known Harlem photographer who is now 82, Negroes did their best to look more respectable than whites, genteelly taking tea in beauty parlors...
Orgy of Laughter. The myths usually begin with Halprin urging her visitors-who range from college professors to neighborhood hippies-to make themselves completely comfortable by shedding whatever garments they care to (most stop at shoes and socks). The weekly sessions take place in a barren room with a minimum of props; the usual musical accompaniment is the pounding of drums. After a few basic instructions from Halprin on the nature, of the evening's theme, the enactment of the myth begins. And except for some quiet and inconspicuous guidance from her workshop dancers, the non-professional participants...
...knows what the Med School is doing until they read the Boston papers). Last summer, for example, the Real Estate Office contracted to sell two houses to a local real estate agent, even though another office had proposed--albeit some time previously--to sell the houses to a neighborhood association. After tempers had flared, the officers of the association finally concluded that the entire episode had been caused by a breakdown in the internal and external communications of the University...
...scene is Candy Mossier, acquitted in 1966 of the murder of her wealthy husband Jacques. For the most part, residents seem quietly pleased that Nixon has joined their group, but there are a few minority opinions. Told of the Nixon purchases, one resident sniffed: "Hmmph. There goes the neighborhood...