Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work with residents. The resulting citizens' review committee held some 50 sessions, attended by 30 to 40 representatives of neighborhood associations and labor, business and civil rights groups. Himmel was glad to cooperate to avoid costly delays, painfully aware that bitter citizen opposition had recently obstructed Park Plaza, a proposed 50-story development overlooking Boston's public garden. "We see citizens' review as a creative opportunity," he says...
...group of 2,000 children braved icy winds in the broad concrete plaza outside the conference hall to hold up placards spelling out a message for the visiting foreign dignitaries: THE WORLD IS WAITING. -By John Kohan. Reported by Erik Am fitheatrof/Stockholm and Barrett Seaman with Shultz
They would not go away, those pushy women circling the Plaza de Mayo silently, as if under water, photographs of their sons, daughters and husbands swinging on chains from their necks like good-luck charms. Sometimes the women would bear the photographs on placards; sometimes they would hold a snapshot delicately out in front of them between the index finger and the thumb, presenting unassailable proof to anyone who cared to look that the subject of the picture did, at one time, exist. Every Thursday the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo performed their half-hour ritual across the street from...
...street and out of their homes under night and fog. "The prisoners will vanish without a trace," read the decree. They did not. They were traced in the minds of those who survived. Feelings are still harder to dispose of. The Argentine mothers were not patrolling the Plaza de Mayo in the name of revolutionary ideas, but because they missed those they love...
...women of the Plaza would not let them have such a world, intruding upon them week after week. Strange figures, ghosts hunting for ghosts. Did they do it all as a political protest, or did they think that their husbands and children might actually be recognized, and returned to them safely? Do they think that still? They had nothing to hope for, they walked in a circle, and they said nothing, by which they restored much that had gone away from Argentina. -By Roger Rosenblatt