Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Centro gave the word early last January. In five tenements along West Newton Street in Boston's South End, the rent strike began. A handful of Puerto Ricans, nine families in all, refused to pay their rent until the slumlord brought the buildings up to Housing Code standards. He responded by turning off the heat one night in the apartment of one of the strikers and her four children. But they held...
After the rent strike, the reputation of the Centro de Accion (Action Center), Iglesias' organization, burgeoned. The people were angry now, and they began to notice the Centro's activities. The rat holes and broken sewer pipes in the five tenements had shocked Health Department officials so that they condemned the buildings, and the displaced families found homes which were at least a little better...
...their roofs. As a citizen of the Soviet Union, the Russian enjoys a large measure of security and many social benefits. Both husband and wife must normally take jobs to support a family, but the Russian gets high-quality medical and hospital care for nothing, pays practically no rent, can go to a university free-if he can pass the entrance exams-and is entitled to a pension at age 60 (55 for women) of between 50% and 100% of his former income. The entire country is gradually being put on a five-day work week...
...there are, I believe, not more than eight or nine which both existed in 1914 and have not had their form of government changed by force since that time. We are one of that fortunate few. And more than luck is involved. In nation after nation that has been rent by insurrection, subverted by conspiracy, or defeated by enemies, it is not luck that has run out, but judgment, and the capacity to live with one another, the ability of the people to pick wise rulers, and of those picked to rule wisely. It is a curious quality of those...
...never got between him and life. His sense of humor has never been overrun. When the Greek government requisitioned a piece of land he owned for use as a military cemetery, Seferis said: "Alas, even if they gave it back I fear it would be hard to raise the rent." To read Seferis is to experience a sense of honesty, a cool scorn for any kind of evasion. His austere prescription for self-knowledge is, therefore, almost predictable...