Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a tendency to think of leadership only in terms of powerful public positions. Yet, as Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan said: "All through our society, in civic groups, clubs, churches, neighborhood associations, unions," there are many who may not be leaders in their jobs but who during "the rest of their time [exercise] a certain kind of leadership respected by neighbors, friends or other members of the community. You get a more intelligent, responsible followership if the followers themselves have experience with leadership...
...Bible out with his eyes,"), and religion remains a very strong facet of Blue's life. Blue began his career as a fabulist by telling stories to his retarded brother, who could neither read nor write, and later died in an institution. One of the few blacks in his neighborhood, Blue recalls a rough childhood. "I'm like a flower who grew up in rocky soil," he says...
Both candidates have stressed their stances on the issues, and some original ideas have emerged during the campaign. Lorber presents the electorate with an elaborate plan for preserving the nation's ethnic neighborhoods (remember Carter's infamous "ethnic purity" remark?). His plan includes the establishment of neighborhood court systems where citizens could argue their own cases in minor legal matters. Lorber's platform also calls for a freeze on public housing rents and a property tax freeze for senior citizens living on a low or fixed income...
Rose Lewis, one of the defendants, said that they pulled up in front of a friends house to get directions and were followed by a man in his car, yelling, "Blacks get out of my neighborhood...
LaTremouille believes this is unlikely since the neighborhood around the library has one of the smallest percentages of park land in Cambridge...