Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Built on a former garbage dump that thrusts into Boston Harbor, the Columbia Point Housing Project has never been an appealing place. The stark, institutional-style buildings and their occupants-now mostly impoverished blacks and Puerto Ricans, with a minority of white pensioners-are isolated both geographically and culturally from Boston proper. There are no private doctors in the project, and Boston City Hospital is a long bus ride away...
...Administration's waiting game paid off in two ways. Not only was the occupation ended without violent confrontation, but, in stark contrast to the 1969 upheaval, it did not alienate large segments of the Faculty and student body. The Administration effort to keep the community informed clearly helped to defuse a potentially dangerous situation...
...magic of O Congress springs from both the talents of Riegle and his assistant Armbrister and the nature of a diary form at itself. Days and weeks of political activity stand in stark contrast beside touching personal anecdotes. With artful honesty, Riegle discusses the stresses that destroyed his marriage. We also see his subsequent psychological recovery and relationship with another woman. These, combined with the simple, idyllic, and infrequent moments Riegle enjoys with his children, give O Congress an appreciable human impact. The result is rare; a political document of visceral as well as intellectual substance...
...uncluttered design were any measure of greatness. Frobenius organs are destined for eternal admiration. The initial visual impression of the case brings in mind Indian River orange crates: the bright unstained wood is painfully stark against the somber interior of the church the separates encased divisions seem to fit together like toy blocks in sterile symmetry. The en Chamade ranks sparkle the new chrome...
...paused to take stock, McGovern knew that he has to be liked a lot more if he is to have any chance of winning in November. His strategy is now as simple as it is stark: run hard in the big electoral states-New York, California, Texas, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania-and forget most of the others. He is also relying on television. On Sunday, the first of a series of half-hour programs on McGovern's life was shown. "We've got to rehabilitate the candidate," says an aide. "We've got to show...