Word: summers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neighborhood. Youth employment projects are developed neighborhood by neighborhood, and if a child does not receive a job assignment in his neighborhood, his parents are likely to keep him from working at all. When the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs organizes its free programs for the summer, it has to select its performers, concert managers, D.J.'s and even movie bus drivers on the basis of race or ethnic affiliation or resemblance: if it doesn't, it may expose its employees to stonings and attempted shootings. Blacks are even more vulnerable than whites in this regard because the black...
City priorities were also called into question in July of this past summer, when a group of East Boston teenagers firebombed the home of a Guatemalan family at mid-day. On July 23, the family had been picnicking on the grounds of the East Boston project, where its apartment was located, when an argument began between one of the grandmothers and a white woman of comparable age who also lived in the area...
...likened SNP leaders William Wolfe and Margo MacDonald to Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. The analogy was undeniably forced, but Bicentennial fever had struck the Americans already, and they gave a thunderous ovation to this fiery Scotsman whose cheeks were rosy from daily games of golf in the nippy summer wind. "Two hundred years after our American cousins broke free from English domination, we Scottish feel it is time to do the same, and we shall succeed," he concluded with a flourish...
...SCENE: St. Andrews University Scotland, during a typically damp, gray Scottish summer in 1974. Having bribed their parents into sending them to Europe by promising to study at a university, 200 American high school students were sitting in a lecture hall awaiting another lecture on British politics. Past lectures given by members of different political parties, cabinet ministries and interest groups had been nowhere near as exciting as the non academic hours the students had spent exploring Macbeth's Glamis castle and the romantic lochs. But the students quickly realized that this lecture would be different...
...Golden Triangle? The CIA? The Mob? While Moriarty ponders that, with the aid of two alternately humorous and sadistic thugs, Nolte and Weld are running for their lives, down to Los Angeles and finally out into the desert to an abandoned hippy enclave where Nolte once lived. But the summer of love died long ago, infiltrated by COINTELPRO and laughed to death on Johnny Carson. In the end Nolte is dead too, and Moriarty and Weld are driving back out across the desert back to bourgeois, empty lives in Berkeley. The long night settles...