Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Failure to show up in an Irish bar on St. Patrick's Day is about as close to a treasonable offense as you'll find in any Irish neighborhood. There is a certain air to the Irish pub that sets it apart: the creaminess of the stout, the smokiness of the wooden bar, the perfectly spherical physique of the bartenders. But most of all there is the conversation, which ranges from Joyce to the IRA, to the sermon that new priest had the nerve to preach last Sunday, but, by the fourth beer, always settles down to Sports...
...petition puts every councilor on the spot with respect to his constituency, John Riseman, a member of the Quality of Life Committee of the Council of the Peabody School, adding "Now any councilor who votes against it is voting against his own neighborhood...
Members of a North Cambridge neighborhood group have begun circulating a petition objecting to the possibility that the MBTA Red Line extension. Soon to be built, may end in Alewife Brook Parkway in North Cambridge, and lead to traffic problems and overdevelopment of the now-residential area...
Members of the planning team are afraid of "massive doses of congestion, or traffic and parking problems" which would change the character of the neighborhood if the Red Line ends there, Quinn said...
...There's a lot of frustration living in that environment. It's like you sit around, and you have all this nervous energy. And everybody's hanging around and what the fuck do you do? And what can you do? In all seriousness, come down my neighborhood, what can you do? There's a gym. How many times a week can you play basketball before it becomes ridiculously boring? The high school's a dive, it's a serious joke, you don't learn shit. Your parents are basically working class, are basically going to work, coming home, going...