Word: neighborhooding
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...Whatever hope Zimbardo offers rests on society's ability to recover its waning spirit of community. Where that occurs, vandalism is rare. Nathan Goldman, chairman of the sociology department at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, reports that a school deeply involved in its neighborhood-by holding night programs for parents, for instance, or by opening its doors to extracurricular community functions-invariably deters the vandal. Somehow, the behavioral scientists feel, man must discover how to apply this lesson on a broader scale. The vandal's deed is his declaration of defiance against a society that...
...community meeting marks the most recent of a string of delicate maneuverings by the University to win residents’ approval of its plans for expansion into their neighborhood...
...market, I thought I was the only one living in a place where people make real estate deals with money they don't have. Unless I become a movie star or join a drug ring, I will probably never have enough money to own a house in a decent neighborhood...
...displayed in Viet Nam by winning a Congressional Medal of Honor. Dolores proves her valor by overcoming generations of inertia and fatalism. She does it by demonstrating that behind the male swagger there is usually an unsteady little boy in need of a firm maternal hand. When a neighborhood Rambo threatens to shoot at police from his window, Dolores arms herself with a basket of wet wash and gets him to help her hang it: "She held her hand out and Ralphie gave her the blue pajamas. She pinned them to the line and then moved them out, boldly...
...family is readjusting to having a ballplayer in the house. "When I packed up for the first road trip, they wondered where I was going." Around the neighborhood, he is better known as a Little League coach and groundkeeper. "Watching the kids play these last few years, I remembered how we all started out playing for the love of games. If you're lucky enough to make it to the N.F.L., the N.B.A. or big-league baseball, you start talking about 'a living' and 'a job' and 'having to go to work.' But I honestly think the majority of players...