Word: rising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This neighborhood on North Harvard Street has a history of very militant opposition to the BRA's plans to redevelop the site. In 1964, when the BRA tried to evict 85 low income families to build a high-rise luxury apartment tower, the residents fought back so bitterly that the plans for the project were scrapped...
...realize that the only way our problems can be solved is through men like John V. Lindsay? Is the white middle class going to buy the preachings of a few shrewd capitalists like Yorty, Charles Stenvig and Procaccino? If so, will the blacks, frustrated for the 15 millionth time, rise up in final, bloody revolt? I hope...
...Extra Mart. As the party on the rise, Labor now has a psychological edge. Wilson's stock has been buoyed by Britain's current balance-of-payments surplus, the first in seven years, and by his cocky show of confidence two weeks ago at Labor's own annual meeting in Brighton. At the Tory conference, one speaker compared Wilson to Richard III, he of the "crooked back" and "evil mind" who rallied his troops and "rode off full of hope to his doom in Bosworth Field." In the end, that fate may befall Edward Richard George Heath...
...Mardi Gras, the imperial army's top officers cavort in the home of the Baron von Epp. Dennis King plays the role in tiara and gown, and flutters an imperious fan with the regal disdain of a queen of players. At no other point does the play rise to this level of theatricality. Salome Jens adorns the evening physically as a Russian Mata Hari, but she delivers her lines like a fishwife. As for Maximilian Schell, he is frostily remote. Director Peter Glenville doubtless tried to coax some emotion out of Schell, but he might as well have pleaded...
...most fortunate. As a 16-year-old Depression waif, she wakes to discover that her lover, sleeping beside her, has just been shot through the head. Within the hour, a neighborhood policeman, more interested in investigating Loretta than the murder, has her back in bed. Marrying him to rise in the world, she eventually finds her level as a cheerful survivor, shifting from man to man, piecing together each new day from the wreckage...