Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Harvard students in an attempt to refocus their energy and eliminate the more immediate problems of poverty and racism in Harvard's backyard. He stands in House dining halls, beneath gaudy chandeliers, surrounded by the gazes of past House masters, and tries to describe the Fidelis Way housing project where his revitalization corps is concentrating its efforts. "It's a goddam pit," he says with typical directness, "and it needs your help...
From some of the burned out apartments of Fidelis Way, through shattered windows, the spires of Harvard's River Houses gleam in the distance. The ground crunches underfoot, not with fresh snow, but with broken glass. The fenced-in project looks more like post-war Dresden. The hollow buildings and junkyard streets appear uninhabitable. Many of the apartments are occupied by squatters who arrive at night and stake out empty rooms. Periodic drug raids shake up the dismal day-to-day activities at Fidelis...
Adults living at the project seem desperate, concerned more about their children than themselves. One woman told a Harvard students, without asking who he was or why he was there, "I hope you're here to help...
...seems compelled to project his inner feelings--his emotional reality--outward as a description of events and external reality. He does not 'lie'; but he shapes the world according to a 'deeper' truth, his own needs...
...group looked at every building in Cambridge with seven or more rent-controlled units, Thomas Gougeon, the student who headed the project, said yesterday...