Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drawing heavily on his boyhood in an Italian neighborhood in New York City, Scorsese has constructed a loose narrative about a jobless adolescent named J.R. (Harvey Keitel) and a wispy, enigmatic girl (Zina Bethune). J.R. moves in a world where Cadillacs park conspicuously in front of tenements and the guy taking his grandchildren down to the corner for a lemon ice is the No. 1 professional murderer on the East Coast...
Next to being in each other's company, nothing appeals to young singles like doing something really different. Three Louisville real estate developers have announced a project that offers both attractions. In a neighborhood on the fringe of the downtown area, they will convert 24 huge, interconnected silos and a grain elevator into apartments for single people between the ages...
...false sense of neutrality were ever possible, it is no longer so in an era of intense community and neighborhood self-awareness. Through elected and self-appointed leaders, by petition and by protest, singly and collectively, the citizens of our urban environment expect the university to act as a responsible and enlightened landlord, employer and neighbor. Little more than a legitimate concern for its own self-interest will lead the university to reflect seriously and act positively on the obligations of its urban citizenship...
...that site may not want low-income housing there. Given the right political atmosphere, they can block the zoning changes needed to build the housing. In fact, during the past five or ten years, proposed public housing sites have been turned down again and again after meeting with neighborhood opposition...
That this should happen is not surprising. Cambridge politicians are always most closely attuned to the desires of small groups of their neighborhood supporters. The whole political structure of the City drives them in this direction...