Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, disagreement over whether to oppose ROTC solely on the grounds of homophobia or to take a stand on broader issues relating to the military prompted the activists to vote down by a two-to-one margin a proposal to demonstrate today. But they agreed to hold an open meeting tonight to consider further action, such as a sit-in in the council's office...
...white American who avoids Harlem missing something? Yes: for starters, a poignant and profound social textbook lying open for study in the heart of a great city. One gazes at block after block of abandoned brownstones -- their fronts corked by arson, their doorways cemented shut, their empty windows gaping like a skeleton's eye sockets -- and realizes that agonizing irony is Harlem's chief industry. Perhaps, then, the European tourists are seeing things. Yes, they are: spectacular things. Any tour of Harlem compresses into a few square miles the melodramatic contradictions of urban life. Horror dwells in the basement...
Residents have meticulously preserved some of the area's most gorgeous homes, like those on Strivers' Row -- two blocks of houses (some designed by Stanford White) where ragtimers Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake lived. The homes of two earlier, more antagonistic Harlemites are open to the public: the Morris-Jumel mansion, once the home of Aaron Burr, and Hamilton Grange, the last abode of Alexander Hamilton. Near the Grange on still posh Sugar Hill is a quiet riot of Tudor and Romanesque residences that shelter the faculty of City University. Around the corner is Harlem's favorite archival trove, Aunt...
...happens that the guests at the screening were members of the press, including William Safire, an influential columnist for the New York Times, whose column the next week was all about how cute, open and family-like the Bush White House...
...problem today, however, is that this curiosity is drawing our attention from substantive concerns. We may applaud the fact that the Bush White House is a lot more open than the secretive and "basement" attitudes of the Reagan days, but the press is reporting the diversion, not the issue...