Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing could have been better than this, the Williams Tunnel. By 1995, Williams will link South Boston to East Boston, providing a traffic connection between the South and North Shores which doesn't pass straight through Downtown Boston. Once that's completed, the Central Artery, the 1950s monstrosity which courses through the heart of the city, will be torn down and replaced by a long, green park. Maybe they'll even put a baseball diamond where the Rowes Merge used...
...then-President Nathan M. Pusey who in the mid-1950s first broke with tradition when he introduced the "Program for Harvard College...
This alienation is intensified by accumulating reports of late-night harassment, a bonechilling wind-tunnel effect and the stench of urine and rubbish. The late 1950s June Cleaver dreamworld of the pedestrian shopping zone has been steadily turning into a nightmare. With the recent departure of the genteel Cambridge Shop (for Ladies) and the Crimson Shop (for Gentlemen), one can imagine the upper echelons of Harvard Real Estate peering down into the morass of the Square and wringing their hands in dismay...
...lifelong obsession with breaking new ground, Davis revolutionized jazz time and again. One such turning point was the legendary series of albums (among them, Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain) that he recorded in the 1950s and '60s with arranger Gil Evans. Borne on Evans' rich orchestrations, Davis' risky improvisational strategies and restless experimentation lifted jazz onto higher planes of complexity and excitement...
Frank O'Hara's short life, somewhat surprisingly, does not always make for the best reading. The poet laureate of 1950s bohemian New York passed his first 20 years in relative quiet, leading a withdrawn existence in a small Massachussetts town. And despite the assurance on the book jacket of Brad Gooch's City Poet that O'Hara's accidental death at 40 struck down a poet "at the height of his powers," this book portrays these last years as more consumed by depression and alcoholism than creative passion...