Word: blighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rehabilitated have higher rents. In Boston's Washington Park rehabilitation program, as The London Economist's correspondent noted, "most of the poor who lost their homes cannot afford the new flats and have been rehoused eleswhere." Rehabilitation, though a worthy concept and useful weapon in fighting the spread of blight, neither benefits the poor directly nor does it increase the overall supply of housing...
...government, institutions and private citizens in their own efforts . . . We have not chosen to have an ugly America. We have been careless, and often neglectful. But now that the danger is clear and the hour is late, this people can place itself in the path of a tide of blight which is often irreversible and always destructive...
...ziggurat of steel lattice is a joy toy for kids, and a spatial bore. But then, who considers a playground worthy of a sculptor's talents? At least, New York city's housing authority did, and let Costantino Nivola, 53, see how he could improve on the blight of monkey bars, slides, and swings that make play grounds across the nation look like a titanic display of naked plumbing...
Richard and Katherine Gordon's book. The Blight of the Ivy, is causing a major amount of concern today among psychiatrists, King stated. The book, he said, causes a false feeling of alarm to students and administrators by decrying the "alarming rate of increase of psychiatric disorders" among college students...
...fantasy is retaliation. In these plays, the Negro has the gun. He gives the orders, he slugs, he kills, he wins. Dramatically, the virtue of this is that action follows idea like a dagger thrust without the shadow of explanations, descriptions and rationalizations that fall on drama like a blight...