Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge business community is also split into two camps. On the one hand, there is the pro-MBTA Harvard Square Business Association, a group heavily influenced by the more secure companies in Cambridge--the banks, the Coop and the theaters. Although Chamber of Commerce officials stress the non-partisan nature of their group, they also favor the extension plans. Both of these groups, says Danehy, are having the wool pulled over their eyes. The small-store owners on Mass. Ave. have taken the other side. They're worried about the 60-odd parking spaces on Mass. Ave. which...
...state assembly, have managed to reduce the decision on who is to run a state of 16 million people, whose cities tread regularly on the edge of bankruptcy and whose social service agencies are crumbling from dry rot and sheer neglect, into a banal game of phony partisan issues and political "Who Do You Trust?" Score two points for aggressive mediocrity...
...Clark are all running for their liberal lives. Ed Brooke is running too. Up the stairs in the Hampshire House Restaurant in Boston to a fundraiser. Gloria Steinem and Coretta King are there, lauding the role Brooke has played in the struggle for women's rights. It is a partisan crowd and Brooke looks pleased. He has trouble moving through the crowd to get to the door. There is nothing but praise...
Kahn, 61, was influenced in his choice of a career by the Great Crash. "I went into economics," he says, "because the world was suffering from catastrophic depression." The experience did not make him a partisan of Big Government; it convinced him instead of the strength of free enterprise. After a boyhood in Paterson, N.J., he graduated summa cum laude from New York University and earned his doctorate in economics at Yale. He started teaching at Cornell in 1947, and has remained on the faculty ever since...
...Comes a Time, and last week he completed his most extensive tour in years. Dylan continues on a three-month barnstorming blitz, playing St. Paul in his home territory of Minnesota this week. Earlier both converged on New York City at the same time. Young played to wildly partisan crowds, while Dylan kept his audience at arm's length and flummoxed even the aficionados. The inevitable result of this near collision on what Young calls "the human highway" has been Dylan's getting drubbed with his disciple's reputation...