Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three city council seats that fell vacant in 1968: the black population is younger than the white citizenry and does not turn out as heavily to vote. The two leading Negro mayoral possibilities are both moderates: Kenneth Gibson, a structural engineer in the city's buildings department, who ran for mayor in 1966 and finished third, and hard-driving Oliver Lofton, head of the city's Neighborhood Legal Services office...
...also burdened with a play that was by no means his first choice (although its author, Jacinto Benavente, won the Nobel Prize for Drama and the original production of the play ran for more than 850 performances in 1907). A week ago, Cooper's own energy level was so low that he didn't even know if he would really want to put on the play...
Eyewitnesses said that at least three Harvard policemen ran after the youths and detained them at the scene until a Cambridge police paddy wagon came...
October is a deathly month. The moon is pumpkin sized and vibrant. In a tiny room in Boston, on a night as black as Boston's sooty buildings, Scott lay beneath the blankets and watched the ceiling change color to the rhythm of Mirna's peaceful breathing. A man ran across a graveyard beneath a moon which changed into his mother's smiling face. The graveyard was full of rows of white crosses which pulled backwards beneath the running man's feet so that he made no progress. But he kept running. The moon kept smiling. Scott thought the moon...
...novel idea ran into some serious problems from the very beginning. Two weeks after opening night, the police shut down the Atma as a potential "disruption to the Community." But the coffeehouse was soon allowed to open again. While Samshak had no plans to disrupt the community, he soon found that the community would disrupt the Atma Windows, lights, typewriters, and tape recorders were vandalized; within the first two months, over $2,000 worth of damage was done. Guards were placed at the front and back doors to keep the community gangs from disrupting the performances. But keeping unwanted people...