Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murphy will be working with the Boston Food Bank and the Adopt-a-Nursing-Home Program. "Harvard is an intense forum for liberal discussion, but City Year is finally a chance to turn words into action while we're here," he says...
...also the year that chickenwire was transformed into shimmering, seven-foot walls of ice in the Quad as part of a landscape art project. This was one of three such projects that tried to turn the newly-remodeled greensward into a postmodern palette. One artist threatened to tiger-stripe the lawn with strips of orange sod, but angry Quadlings forced her to content herself with some white lime lines that made the Quad into an airplane runway...
America has always had a fascination with the salesman and with good reason. He is the one member of society whose efforts are perfectly tailored to the society around him. The salesman's interactions run the gamut from complete alienation to perfect compatibility, as quickly as a turn-down becomes a sale. He is a modern social prototype as profound as the warrior of antiquity...
ALTHOUGH he has unlocked many of the inner workings of urban culture, Wolfe has drawn criticism for his treatment of minorities. Wolfe writes with palpable terror as his hero and mistress take a wrong turn and are forced to drive through a minority neighborhood. Some would call this telling it like it is, but the writer Howard Fast, for one, felt obliged to write to The New York Times to tell of his car breaking down in the South Bronx--and the helpful assistance he received from local residents...
...Latin American's turn. When the movie industry limits its portayal of the Latin American, the audience observes him with this same limited perspective. This negative standpoint becomes the perspective from which the entire Latin American community is viewed. An audience sees a stereotypical Latin American character and assumes that all Latin Americans are just a bunch of drug-dealing criminals...