Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joe DiMaggio remembers these legions lovingly as they gave him one of the most frenzied ovations in all of sports. The last day of the 1948 season. To force a playoff, the Sox had to beat the Yankees, and Detroit had to beat Cleveland. Thirty years before 1978--the same...
"Do you want to see the same old Timilty-White show?" Boston School Committee President David Finnegan asked over and over again while campaigning in the preliminaries. Yes, Boston voters answered on September 25, but now they may be having second thoughts. Although the names are the same, this time...
In any other city, there would be a lot of yelling and screaming over White's refusal to debate Timilty on television. But in Boston, only Timilty is yelling--and not loud enough. White has even refused to appear on the same platform as his challenger. "What we don't...
For the CCA, it's been largely business as usual. The 40-year-old "progressive party" endorsed its slate in a well-attended summer convention. Many of the names were the same as two years ago, and the tactics are similar-city-wide mailings, printed slate cards which volunteers will...
The CHT and CPOA are the other side of the CCA coin--they draw their support from parts of the city not dissected by Brattle St., and from people who collect rent, not pay it. Virulently anti-rent control, with almost a messianic attachment to condominiums, the CHT leaders a...