Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...much of the country, flags also seem to excite some emotion that cries for more of everything. In Munster, 111., for example, Mrs. Mary Lou Kieswetter heads Project 41, a plan to have "Old Glory flown in front of every home and place of business along U.S. Highway 41 from Upper Michigan to Miami, Fla." Says Mrs. Kieswetter: "The inert majority have got off their duffs and begun to protest in a beautiful, constructive...
...give-away is that Project Place was started by seminary students from the Harvard Divinity School. It is concerned, motivated, hard-working, and liberal in the way that any program that tries to give people anything more substantial than ideas must be. Project Place has to do things like go to Mayor White and say. "Look, these kids need help," or "they trust us." It would be easy to say that such statements are counter-revolutionary - who in the world really wants to talk to Mayor White anyway? -if they weren't also true. What about 14-year-olds shooting...
Abstracts get jumbled out in the real world. Divinity School students get things done because they have an answer to THE BIG QUESTION. They are also very kind people. I talked to a member of the staff at Project Place named Aram Shiller. He seems to live a sort of informed passivity, and says in the middle of a long day. "I won't call what I do fighting. Our philosophy is that you don't have to be where the person you're talking to is at to help him. You don't have to be strung...
Flash says that Cambridge needs a Community Center. Shiller says so too. There may be one soon. A new project called "Sanctuary" is opening this summer at 9 Mt. Auburn St. It will do some of the same things as Project Place, and may also have a hostel, where kids can crash for 25 cents a night...
...project is very important, and good people are trying to make it happen. But right now this moment the street people I have been talking about are out there hustling and tripped out and stoned out of their minds every time they get near any dope, and they will never be rehabilitated away by the Divinity School students...