Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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People in Your Neighborhood...
...part of its plan to sell off 20 wood-frame properties, the University will allow the Agassiz Neighborhood Council to purchase the Sacramento Street building which the group presently occupies for less than market price...
After considering the group's extended occupancy of the building and its important role in the neighborhood, Spiegelman said Harvard decided to sell the property to the council at a reduced rate...
...couldn't join in. I was thinking about the innocent people who had been there in Yankee Stadium. They're thrilled now. They can't foresee the scene at the neighborhood tavern when they casually acknowledge having witnessed David Wells' perfect game and some wise guy at the other end of the bar says, "I guess you were at the game when Bobby Thompson hit his home run too. And, listen: to someone who was in the stands, did it really look like the Babe pointed at the centerfield wall before he put one over...
...genuine respect for musicianship. He would speak fondly and knowledgeably of Billie Holiday, Mabel Mercer, Tony Bennett. And if he heard you had an ear and were ready to lend one, and if the mood was right and there was a bottle of Scotch in the neighborhood, he could talk about music far into the night. "A Johnny Mercer lyric," he said once, casually, "is all the wit you wish you had and all the love you ever lost." Music was the one subject that could make Sinatra drop his guard. He talked about music as he sang it: with...