Word: places
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue was decentralized control of public schools, favored by Negro leaders. The union viewed it as a threat to teachers' civil service rights, and a ruinous strike took place...
Sensing a showdown, the Syndicate summoned a meeting of the 21-member working committee, the party's highest executive body, to consider Indira's actions against Nijalingappa. Indira defiantly summoned her supporters on the working committee to meet at the same time but at a different place. The result: an even split. Ten members went to the Syndicate's session and ten to Indira's, while the 21st member shuttled between the two groups in hopes of patching up the quarrel...
...finds a tempting, natural target in the U.S., "since it looms so large in the lives of other nations." Against a backdrop of danger, the report stresses that the U.S. in its own self-interest must reaffirm its old, and unfortunately unfulfilled, goal of making the hemisphere a better place in which to live for all Americans, both north and south...
...difficult to speak adequately or justly of London," wrote Henry James in 1881. "It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent." Were he alive today, James, a connoisseur of cities, might easily say the same thing about New York or Paris or Tokyo, for the great city is one of the paradoxes of history. In countless different ways, it has almost always been an unpleasant, disagreeable, cheerless, uneasy and reproachful place; in the end, it can only be described as magnificent...
...despite everything, including itself, the truly great city is the stuff of legends and stories and a place with an ineradicable fascination. After cataloguing the horrors of life in imperial Rome, Urban Historian Lewis Mumford adds, almost reluctantly, that "when the worst has been said about urban Rome, one further word must be added: to the end, men loved...