Word: parks
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...deployment. In addition, the Soviets now speak of maintaining a "reasonable sufficiency" in their nuclear and conventional forces rather than attempting to match or surpass the might of the West in every category. As a Soviet arms- control official asked recently, "What do we need a huge tank park in Eastern Europe...
...seems more like a whirlpool of possibilities, most of them still anxiously hypothetical. The artists have had to learn not to be optimists. Fifteen years ago, Leonid Brezhnev's officials sent plainclothes militia and bulldozers to break up and bury an outdoor show of unofficial art in Sokolniki, a park on the outskirts of Moscow. This goons' picnic would not be repeated today. The socialist realist line, imposed by Stalin after 1929 and kept to the end of Brezhnev's reign, held that a work of art should fulfill the criteria of partinost (party spirit), ideinost (firm commitment to prescribed...
Epps said Quincy House Superintendent Ronald W. Levesque will be in charge of opening the Plympton St. park, which is across the street from Quincy House. However, the Fly Club will still be responsible for keeping the grounds and mowing the grass Epps said...
...People's Park "became one of the legendary struggles" of the late 1960s, Skotnes says, adding that the debacle resulting in "major street fighting and riots unified campus and community radicals" and led to further demonstrations on a number of other issues...
...Before that, we used to say that Harvard students thought "the community was a subway stop somewhere beyond Park St.," says Wesley E. Profit '69, a former president of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). "I think it meant that people had to be on guard, that this link between the students and the community had been forged, and you didn't want it to happen again...