Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between Mass Ave and Cambridge St., Broadway runs through a middle-class integrated neighborhood, past playgrounds and missile research facilities, till it finally reaches the river. Broadway is a nice place to walk through quiet streets with houses, not stores, and friendly people...
More interesting is Western Avenue, which runs from Central Square straight to the Charles. The neighborhood it bisects is Riverside, one of Cambridge's heavily black communities. When it's hot, people are out all over; Donnell's Store does brisk business in ice, soda pop and ice cream despite a sign admonishing "No Checks Accepted Unless You Are 99 With Your Mother 109." Further down, near the river, you may find a tent crusade. All this summer, the Reverend Ezra kept his congregation under the canvas with his message that riches lead to misery. "He don't own that...
...jacket and rolling up his sleeves, Carter was as folksy as the victorious campaigner of 1976. When one youth found that his microphone would not work, the President graciously called him to the podium to use his. When a rural woman complained about the telephone rates in her neighborhood, Carter promised to call the head of the state public utilities commission, admitting with a smile: "I'm not guaranteeing you any results, but I'll guarantee you I'll call them...
...parents split up when she was a baby, and she has fantasies of meeting her father and punching him out. When she returns to her old neighborhood the street kids say, "Hey, there's Little Star," in tones that make her feel not quite comfortable. But working in the movies can be fun, she says. "It can straighten you out. I feel much better now. I used to feel that I was halfway dead...
...well, seduced families into retreating into houses with closed doors and shut windows, reducing the commonalty of neighborhood life and all but obsoleting the front-porch society whose open casual folkways were an appealing hallmark of a sweatier America. Is it really surprising that the public's often noted withdrawal into self-pursuit and privatism has coincided with the epic spread of air conditioning...