Word: street
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of self-described Cambridge "freaks" and some Harvard students are planning a street-sweeping parade on Massachusetts Avenue tomorrow as part of a campaign to get people to say "thank you" to group they appreciate...
...couple of weeks later I saw some people I know carrying "Save the Trees" signs, They'd been trying to save five oak trees in front of the football stadium across the street. But the trees had already been bulldozed- which was to be expected, since they were in the way of the stadium expansion. The football stadium presently seats 65,000 persons, but Frank Erwin, chairman of the Board of Regents, had led a campaign to build a new deck of 14,000 seats. A lot of people here thought one of the last things this university needed...
...were supposed to be grateful because he planted a sapling pinoak (ugly and little even when it grows up in 40 years) for every 150-year-old cypresshe chopped down. Things continued in this vein for a while, with Erwin making disparaging remarks about "the long-hairs down the street" and the like, until he announced, "I don't have time to talk to a bunch of students. " and left...
...parade will leave Putnam Square at 2 p.m. and sweep the street in the direction of Harvard Square. The marchers will use brooms provided by the Cambridge City Manager's office, and a city truck will accompany them...
Indeed, Seastrom made a remarkably calm film from a rather violent novel. largely by establishing and developing unified situations. The opening sets the scene and its characters in one long track along the village street. moving back as Puritans walk to church. To establish a social milieu Griffith would have cut between different characters. their homes, their personal peculiarities. Seastrom needs only one long shot that shows the Puritan villagers in a characteristic action and place. He uses the setting strongly and gives us masses of people never developed as characters. This leaves the drama far fewer contending moral...