Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There's a kind of madness. August Heckseher, Commissioner of Parks in the New York City, meets with hippie leaders from the East Village. The hippies, in rites of love, have clashed with cops in Tompkins Square Park...
...excitement. One hundred and thirty five thousand people flock to the Sheep's Meadow in Central Park to share an evening with Barbra Streisand. Around the Meadow rises a wall of trees, dark and mysterious. In the distance loom the colorfully lit buildings of the city...
...trees enchanted in the hazy light. Men stroll with their wives on the Mall; lovers lie quietly in the grass; kids running twisting in the crowd; the band plays a slow waltz of the 1890's. On a warm June night 50,000 New Yorkers gather in Central Park to celebrate the good old summertime. "Look at all those people," says the Commissioner. "Isn't it exciting...
...toughness. He drives through Bushwick, a low income neighborhood in Brooklyn, with members of the Bushwick Task Force. The parks and playgrounds are desolate; the fences torn down, the benches ripped apart. A dog lies dead in the corner of Mount Washington Park where it has lain for three days. One longs for lights, and music, and the play of children. Instead there is fear and a lonely silence. Heckscher stares into the night, "There's a feeling that time is running...
...YORK, Nov. 20--The end finally came for Harvard's brilliant cross country team here today in the woody hills of Van Cortlandt Park. Intimidated by much-heralded Villanova and psychologically spent after an undefeated season, the Crimson had to scramble for a disappointing seventh-place finish in the IC4A championships...