Word: playground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials say Harvard students play so much basketball and tennis at municipal playgrounds up and down Memorial Drive that there is no room left for Cambridge residents to use the facilities. "It's a severe problem at the Corporal Burns," a playground on Memorial Drive near Mather House, councilor Kevin P. Crane '73, said yesterday...
Graham said the problem has existed "for years," but officials were especially concerned now because the city plans to construct a new playground--the Riverside Press Project--this summer on Memorial Drive...
Several councilors said they feared Harvard students would take over the new playground. "They treat Corporal Burns (another municipal playground in the Memorial Drive area) like it's theirs, councilor Saundra Graham said...
...trivialized to the status of a life-style -and an unacceptable one. The obsession with being young and staying young has led to the phenomenon of almost permanently deferred adulthood. "I know 50-year-olds who are still kids," says Social Analyst Michael Novak. "They're in the playground of the world: single, unattached, self-fulfilling, self-centered. People are trying to make little Disney Worlds of detachment for themselves." For such people, parenthood is an intrusion of responsibility, of potential disappointment and, ultimately, of mortality. The kids are a memento mori...
...FIND THE TRUTH in the strangest places, and when you do you often like to leave it there. About five years ago it attacked me on a high school playground, where I had gone to play basketball, hardly expecting to be accosted in such a manner. My opponent was a young Catholic priest with a tough hook shot and a knack for sneaking sermons in during games of one-on-one. "You know what we all have in common, don't you?" he asked during a break. "Sure, we're all soldiers of the Lord, hallelujah," I answered, tossing...