Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hogan's Goat by William Alfred. This ten-year-old play is part ethnic memory, part ethnic lament. It evokes Irish customs and political power in the Brooklyn of 1890. In a fiery monologue, Matt Stanton (Steven Ryan), a ward boss, describes his immigrant passage across the Atlantic in midwinter. The men and women in the fetid, icy hold were like unhousebroken animals...
...encyclical against "artificial" birth control. Disillusion over the encyclical, in fact, may have cost the American church more than $1 billion a year in contributions. That contention is part of a book by Andrew M. Greeley, William C. McCready and Kathleen McCourt: Catholic Schools in a Declining Church (Sheed & Ward, 483 pages; $15). In it Father Greeley, 48, a sociologist and acidulous Catholic columnist, declares that the birth control decree was "a shattering blow" to the loyalty of U.S. Catholics. He predicts that future scholars will adjudge it "one of the worst mistakes in the history of Catholic Christianity...
Down Chicago's State Street in their annual show of strength moved some of the biggest wheels in the nation's most powerful political machine. It was the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, but regardless of ethnic, racial or religious stripe, practically every precinct captain, ward committeeman and patronage worker was there. At the head of the throng-which included members of the city's bureau of forestry, bureau of electricity, bureau of sanitation and bureau of equipment service-stepped His Honor himself. Sporting an emerald hat and a shillelagh, Mayor Richard Joseph Daley marched...
From city hall, the word went out to many of the machine's 25,000 patronage workers: turn out the votes for Hewlett or lose your city job. The ward committeemen got the message, and so did the precinct captains, who perform every service from bailing kids out of jail to helping faithful Daley followers find city jobs to assuring that garbage pickups and street repairs are made. On election day, the precinct captains strove mightily to meet the voter turnout quotas expected of them. The captains pointedly greeted voters by their names, while lesser machine workers carefully checked...
Terrance A. Ward Houston...