Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Norman Rockwell's illustrations were not of a "dreamworld" [Nov. 20], but of a reality that I remember well. In my New England neighborhood the grandparents of my friends looked very much like those in his illustrations. There was no one with a camera handy when the boys (and girls) stole apples from a neighbor's orchard and said their grace before meals, or when my own doctor examined my doll for symptoms of asthma. Norman Rockwell's work has preserved those scenes from everyday life, and 300 years from now our descendants will know that apple...
...pulled off a political coup in selecting Don Horanzy, 42, a real estate loan officer of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, to fill out White's four-year term. Horanzy had not sought political office but had developed local support by founding a neighborhood "All People's Coalition" in White's lower-middle-class, partly black, Oriental and white ethnic district. The volunteer coalition helped combat crime and spruce up the neighborhood. Moscone had scheduled a press conference for 11:30 a.m. to announce Horanzy's appointment...
...wide screen in a theater with a good sound system to appreciate it. If Days of Heaven comes to your town (and it hasn't had a wide release yet), make sure they haven't shoved it into one of those mini-cinies in your neighborhood mall. In New York it's only showing on a tiny screen next to the Plaza Hotel. Superman is coming, as everybody knows. I have little faith in director Richard Donner after The Omen, but it'll be good to have Brando back on the screen even if he's a bit blubbery...
...Cambridge Neighborhood Association voted unanimously last night to declare that Harvard has, in its view, broken its past promises not to encroach on the city...
Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser, who sponsored the "home-rule" petition seeking to end zoning exemptions for Harvard and other Cambridge universities, said it was spurred partly by neighborhood protest over Harvard's plans to build the Radcliffe gymnasium on Observatory Hill...