Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the polls close, the ballots are locked up, and then brought next morning to the school auditorium. There, just before 8 a.m. the 100-odd election clerks begin a first, "unofficial" count of the "number one" votes for each city council candidate. The City has eleven wards, each with five precincts-so there are eleven little cubicles on one side of the auditorium, to allow the first precinct of each ward to be counted simultaneously...
...learn that a distinguished group of Washington eggheads in the mental-health ward says that I must not feel "hostile" if my child is "queered" by one of our nation's 12 million homos...
...drinking wine." Most of the working-class students share the radicals' opposition to the Viet Nam war and the draft. Many even grant that campus rebels have done some good by awakening society to evils that must be corrected. Even so, their predominant feeling to ward the radicals is simple dissociation. "I haven't taken part in any demonstrations," says Sally De Haven, 22, a scholarship student at the Chicago Circle campus of the University of Illinois, who works two nights and one weekend day in a hippie store. "I'm really too busy studying and working...
...would produce a city council with eight or nine Irishmen on it. Under PR, one recent council had five Irishmen, one Italian, one black, one Jew, and one Yankee Republican. The system has also given the "good government" Cambridge Civic Association more representation than it would have under a ward system of elections...
...ANGELS by Theodora Ward. 241 pages. Viking. $7.50. Angelic evolution-from divine messenger to artistic symbol-delicately traced through religion, literature and the dark corners of the human mind...