Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until yesterday, political gurus were yawning about Tuesday's general election. Frank Doyle, Flynn's campaign manager, could muster only this response, "How can you say it has been boring, with eight public media forums and twenty neighborhood forums...
...witching season in the good town of Cambridge. Trees are turning Halloween colors. Pumpkins gape from neighborhood porch stoops and all the folks on the streets you find, from the youngest ragamuffins to the oldest, tenured curmudgeons, are sporting their naughtiest Jack Nicholson smiles...
...first and last 25 pages of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee. Because it's not every novel that has its young heroine dressed like a ham for a Halloween pageant, because Lee creates the archetypical American neighborhood and has the good grace to let you explore it, kid-like, by the light of midnight streetlamps, and because Boo Radley, with his taste for live squirrels and last-minute heroics, is the embodiment of Halloween itself--a big, lurking Boogie Man, with a heart of gold...
Until last year the marathon raised money for House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) programs, but the new directors have narrowed down the recipients to six selected charities...
David E. Sullivan, the incumbent, raised $14,380.17. He spent $8611.70 of that sum on campaign publicity. Sullivan's donors include directors of neighborhood organizations such as Gladys P. Gifford, head of the Harvard Square Defense Fund...