Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interwoven with the model girl who never drank, smoked or rock-'n'-rolled, who was equally adept on the violin or in a choose-up neighborhood football game, was another girl who emerged last summer. Three times police spotted Christine aimlessly wandering Westchester County highways at night in jeans and sneakers; three times they packed her back home. "She was unhappy, but she never said just why," observed a girl friend. "Maybe she was lacking in love and affection at home," suggested Patrolman Daniel Rosato, who picked her up in November, handcuffed her when she scratched...
Cambridge police have ticketed about 500 cars during the last two days in their most recent campaign to put an end to illegal parking in the neighborhood of the Houses...
Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the Faculty of Education and a member of the School Committee, denies this. His own children attend the Peabody School, which he described as "more than adequate." Moreover, he said, many Harvard faculty members send their children to such neighborhood schools as Peabody, Russell and Agassiz...
...Neighborhood schools," he adds, "are better than they are given credit for by the Cambridge climate of opinion. There are two ways in which the problem of the school problem can be met. By giving up--moving to Arlington, or by staying to fight. The schools here are good, and they can be tremendously improved through parent-teacher associations and political action...
...repressed sexuality and cankering resentments, and the conviction that what has happened is retribution for sin. Seen as a pathological figure, Margaret is valid and often effective. Moreover, the play highlights how abnormal she is by setting her against a blowzy, easygoing neighbor woman and a sane and knowledgeable neighborhood doctor. Yet, even in Siobhan McKenna's severe, unbending portrayal, Margaret seems something other than a dispassionate psychological study. Playwright Wishengrad has identified her with something in life itself, perhaps with something that gnaws at his own insides. He pushes on toward glib and rather grandiose tragedy, toward loud...