Word: transients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Replacing the working-class families are the more transient paraprofessionals and other white-collar workers employed in metropolitan Boston. "Their political interests tend to be a lot different than families," says Foster. But city pols are unwilling to speculate about just what that change means...
...hard to keep a band together, given the outside pressure at Harvard," and easier to build an audience by confining appearances to campus locations, because of the transient nature of student musicians careers, Patell says...
...current crop of radicals is sucked into the rat race, the issue will probably lie dormant for several more years. At the Law School, student protests prompted a postponement of the implementation of the new grading policy. It sounded like a concession, but a one-year delay in a transient community is more likely to make the issue fade...
...grass in the morning, the dryness of leaves in the evening: nothing is fixed in a schema. Constable became convinced that he must overcome the stasis that convention and idealism produce in art: his project would then be, as he put it, "to arrest the more abrupt and transient appearances of the Chiaroscuro in Nature . . . to give 'to one brief moment, caught from fleeting time' a lasting and sober existence...
County officials, who avoid the word poorhouse, maintain that their emergency shelter is better than the usual alternative facing the poor: having to live in seedy and often dangerous transient hotels. Says Hart: "Here at least you can get a hot meal and clothes and not be worried about getting mugged." In addition, he says, the shelter, which is run on a contract basis by a Christian service organization called the Volunteers of America, is achieving the desired effect: trimming the county's dole roll. In November 1981 the county had 805 applicants for welfare. In November 1982, shortly...