Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meth said the undergraduate members concurred in the decision because "No one cared for the old neighborhood, and we wanted to find a place closer to the Square...
Alfred Cohn, the sixth member of the board who was absent from the meeting, said yesterday his initial reaction was to oppose the down-zoning. Cohn said he believes the residents who proposed the change were not trying primarily to preserve neighborhood values by their attempts to prevent non-residential building in the area...
Speaking before a group of 30 students at Phillips Brooks House, Worthy talked about his 1969 fight against a New York hospital that planned to tear down the apartment building where he lived in orde to build a parking lot. Worthy described his methods for organizing the neighborhood residents and attracting widespread publicity for the tenants' cause...
There is a Grammy Hall, in her 80s, who is still trying to fix Diane up with nice young men from her neighborhood in Los Angeles. She thinks the film was very funny and says, "That Woody Allen, he's something! I can't make head or tail out of half of what he says." She, not Diane, appears to be the ranking family cutup; when Diane's sister Dorrie, 24, had to write a genealogical essay in the manner of Roots for college, Grammy Hall obligingly gave phony details about ancestors unto the fifth generation...
...small for a major city. Its population of 660,000 occupies an area of land with little room for development. As the middle and upper classes grew, the suburbs became the only place to move. Boston is a white working class community where people consider themselves members of a neighborhood, not of a city. The median income is $9000 in an area which is 10 per cent more expensive to live in than the rest of the country. Consequently, Leary blames the city's racial troubles on underlying class tensions. The street corner troublemakers who fought so tenaciously and blindly...