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...comes down to which side you are on," Christina Rendueles, a speaker belonging to the tenant union Hard Times, said. "Are the landlords closing off rooms because they can't pay the bill? Are they putting up plastic to keep the drafts out? No, they can afford to think about new cars and vacations in the Bahamas...
...CTOC will begin canvassing the community immediately to raise tenant attendance at the meeting, he said. White will focus the door-to-door campaign on working class residents and long time inhabitants of Cambridge...
...Speedboat. It saves the book from let-me-tell-you-what-it's-all-about pretentiousness. Adler presents a catalogue of images and events: her landlord is murdered, her friends' marriages break up, she catches a plane out of Egypt just before the outbreak of the 1967 war, a tenant in her brownstone steals another tenant's Sunday Times. She gracefully credits the reader with enough acuity to size up all this for himself...
Brendan Byrne, the current tenant of the Trenton state house, spry, ruddy, athletic-looking, exuding Charlton Hestonesque virility, stood in one of the mezzanine prestige-boxes which ring the new stadium on Sunday, wielding a soggy ham and cheese sandwich in one hand and glad-handing fellow celebs with the other...
...mentions the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, another populist group in the Southern tradition from which Carter has emerged. That group was a tenant and farmer organization that the Southern Baptists and Presbyterians formed many decades ago. Cox says they were "swimming against the stream of racism" and prejudice against poor whites long before that became a popular middle class Northern cause...