Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different ways to different people. It is visible: large numbers of students are constantly walking up and down Putnam Ave. It is financial: the rents in the area are gradually rising as the housing market grows tighter. And it is political: the vote stock of the area's local politician, Walter J. Sullivan, is diminishing steadily. Eight years ago, when Sullivan first ran for the City Council, he received more than 550 votes from his home precinct. His total has now declined to under 350. Sullivan is not lazy, and it is not inattention that accounts for the difference...
...housing market constitute one of the most consistent tensions between Harvard and the rest of Cambridge. "The biggest criticism that I've heard of the town-grown scene is that the University people have boosted rents so high that local people can't stay anymore," says one local politician...
...frequency and ferocity of the attacks have declined. Observes one local politician: "At certain rallies, in the heat of local campaigns there are likely to be anti-Harvard groups, they [the political candidates] may make anti-Harvard speeches. But it has to be very limited, and, in my opinion, subterranean. People don't make public blasts that they might make to small groups or a neighborhood gathering...
...larger part of the City's life. Taken together with M.I.T., it has an extensive impact on the City's economy. It employs more people directly; and the people who live and work in the University support even a wider range of business activities. These people, says one politician, are basically loyal to the University. "As what we call the 'University-family' has grown, town-gown relations have correspondingly improved," he explains...
There is no "political boss" in Cambridge, and the City's politics resembles a sputtering engine more than a smooth-operating machine. Each politician creates his own core of supporters, and each takes care of his own obligations. As a result, Cambridge politics is personalized politics, which exists on man-to-man contact and the trading of favors...