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...Heckscher emerges with a settlement. He wants a press release to go out. The hippies smile, "Yes." Together he and they--a bow tie and flowered robes--draft a release, run the mimeograph machine, stuff the releases into envelopes...
...crowd roars as Barbra, its Barbra, comes on the outdoor stage. She, in a flowing pink gown, is but a twinkling spot in the distance. Around her, her lovers, who listen together to her voice. "There couldn't be 135,000 people," says Commissioner Heckscher, "They'd all have to be embracing. But then a lot of them...
...women sitting on their dirty stoops rise and walk over to see what's going on. Kids come running, pushing, fighting, laughing. The trio starts to play. It's an evening whose gaity relieves for a moment the oppression of dirt, disease, and hunger. "We're buying time," Heckscher says. "But you have to buy time in any way you can and hope that some how things will grow better rather than worse...
...playgrounds are desolate; the fences torn down, the benches ripped apart. A dog lies dead in the corner of Mount Washington Park where it has lain for three days. One longs for lights, and music, and the play of children. Instead there is fear and a lonely silence. Heckscher stares into the night, "There's a feeling that time is running...
...vision to understand the role that parks play in an urban society. Thomas Hoving, his first Parks Commissioner, now director of the Metropolitan Museum, has the genius to translate Lindsay's vision into spectacular "happenings" that reoriented the attitudes of an entire city toward its parks. And August Heckscher, the present commissioner, is expanding on Hoving's work and creating a structure that will make it endure...