Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undergone a conscious change in goals during the last five years, largely under the direction of its chief officers and several dynamic committee chairmen. What was once a social center for Victorian do-gooders has sharpened its aims to include specific educational and socio-economic programs at a neighborhood or institutional level. To implement these more expensive and sophisticated programs, PBHA has amended or altered its constitutions almost annually for decades...
...Abrams is an aging doctor, bitter, brilliant, physically powerful, with a face like a Cherokee's-in fact, line for line the same corrosive old Olympian who dominated The Last Angry Man. It is a pleasure to hear him roar at the world again, even if the neighborhood has gone downhill and even if he knocks Green's memoir slightly out of shape...
...fella' to the hundreds he shakes hands with on a fast neighborhood tour. And how about President Johnson's hand flutter to airport crowds and his 'Y'all come...
...rounds-of 'H & I' (harassment and interdiction) artillery fired into a free strike zone outside of town. Our house is between the artillery mounting on a hill three miles from here and the free strike zones. It's not at all uncommon to hear shells whizzing high over the neighborhood. But if it weren't for the sake of a newsletter, I'd be completely oblivious to the noise (as, indeed, is everyone). H & I is fired mostly for psychological purposes. Free strike zones are areas the army is allowed to pummel day and night. Anything that moves...
...discredit him. Three years later, a well-known American poet (the reader is never told who) accosted the young critic at a party and drunkenly threatened: "We'll get you for that review if it takes ten years." The book is everywhere littered with the hairs of such neighborhood cat fights, most of them long forgotten by everyone but the author...