Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kevin White is standing on a street corner in the North End and smiling from ear to ear. He's not too far away to be talking about Quincy Market and his downtown accomplishments with some lady who lives just off of Prince St. But, as always, the mayor is thinking about something else. White's familiar figure struts up the street and what's left of his now-white hair glows in the cold sunshine. If he's not already there, the mayor is fast approaching mid-life crisis. If he's not mayor of Boston again, there...
This election has featured some vintage White. If there is anything damaging being thrown around, it's all the stuff about the rising numbers of city employees and the mayor's bureaucracy/campaign staff. Timilty has failed to exploit issues, like the always wasteful and sometimes illegal activities of the Office of Cultural Affairs. White, meanwhile, has displayed unusual arrogance and, in keeping with the Richard Daley model, has gotten away with it. "I don't stop work at 5," he's told us several hundred times, "Why should they...
...other city, there would be a lot of yelling and screaming over White's refusal to debate Timilty on television. But in Boston, only Timilty is yelling--and not loud enough. White has even refused to appear on the same platform as his challenger. "What we don't want are joint appearance which are going to use the mayor's prestige to bring Joe Timilty publicity," says Stephen Crosby, the mayor's campaign manager. And people have actually bought this line. All the Boston Globe could gurgle is that White "does not lack for chutzpah...
...Kevin White would have nothing to talk about in a debate with Timilty. But it's more fun to use the issues as a backdrop for personal attacks. So White has labelled Timilty a "basic barroom drinker with general tastes" and accused him of floating all over the issues. "I believe he cannot run this city and I think everyone in the business knows it but the public," the mayor says, "I can see him now getting elected saying. 'Uh, what do I do now?"' Timilty hasn't hesitated to step into the fray, of course. When asked about possible...
Timilty has taken the anti-White tack, mostly because there's nothing in his record to talk about. Timilty's biggest selling point is his work as chairman of President Carter's National Commission on Neighborhoods. But his performance there, like his work in the state house, was less than stellar. Almost half the commission's 19 members dissented on the final report--and the other half quit or were fired. And Timilty has been stressing the "neighborhood" issue, whatever that means. Said one Commission member: "Joe's notion of leadership was you give everybody everything and then they...