Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cesar Chavez has made the Chicano's cause well enough known to make that goal possible. While la huelga is in some respects a limited battle, it is also symbolic of the Mexican-American's quest for a full role in U.S. society. What happens to Chavez's farm workers will be an omen, for good or ill, of the Mexican-American's future. For the short term, Chavez's most tangible aspiration is to win the fight with the grape growers. If he can succeed in that difficult and uncertain battle, he will doubtless try to expand the movement...
...private real estate industry also has a role to play, although it must be carefully defined and neither exaggerated non underrated. The primary incentive of business is return on investment--and the cost constraints inherent in the provision of low and moderate-income housing do not leave much room for profit. What the real estate industry can do is to build housing units, because developers and contractors have done it over and over again, and have expertise at it. The industry also has access to private mortgage money, which is required because there simply is not enough public money...
...City government's role in housing is complex, but one element of it emerges clearly. The most direct way we can insure an adequate supply of housing at reasonable cost is to produce one. We must stop talking about "low-cost" housing, at least in the short range; there simply is no such thing, given the high costs of land, labor, materials and mortgage financing. What we can prouce is housing for for low and moderate income families. The only way we have to do that, at present, is to build housing whose cost to those who live...
...high quality does not, of course, allow the Houghton to be complacent; but it does allow it breathing space in which to ponder a more serious question that confronts it: that of its role within the University and, implicitly, the community. Many people have recently proposed that Harvard make greater efforts to involve the people of Cambridge in its intellectual life and, specifically, that it make the resources of its libraries more accessible to the public...
...someone who stayed in the building for romantic goals rather then political goals is making an unfair appeal. He is asking amnesty on grounds distantly analogous to civil disobedience when he is in fact advocating a general change in life style. The Faculty may feel guilty about its political role, but it is unfair to plead to that conscience when you want it to feel guilty about its life style in general...