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...Less is more," Mies van der Rohe said, and even the architects are beginning to doubt it. In the theater less is less-and less, and less. The Age of Cool is a blight to the theater. Drama was born to be larger, more vivid and more intense than life. Beckett tells us that life is a drab, attenuated prelude to death. The vaudeville japes of the two tramps Didi and Gogo in Godot are supposedly the ways in which we all kill time before time kills...
...volunteer corps for national and international service under the leadership of Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford. Said the President: "I intend to make it an agency through which those willing to give their lives and energy can work at cleaning up the environment, combatting illiteracy, malnutrition, suffering and blight either abroad or at home...
...wits affectionately call the thing, is the world's tallest apartment building: no apartment is less than 45 stories off the ground, and the highest are on the 92nd floor. Tenants often find themselves above cloud level, and they are permanently remote from the city's urban blight. Living in the Hancock, says John McElhatton, 36, of the 47th floor, "makes Chicago a beautiful city...
Last spring Vermont enacted various progressive laws aimed primarily at the state's chief blight: slipshod real estate development (TIME, Sept. 26, 1969). In theory, the laws cure other ills as well. By mid-1971, for example, industries will be required to buy permits to pour effluents into rivers and streams; the fees are scaled to the amount of wastes discharged. Although the new rules seemed models for other states to follow, they have already disappointed almost everyone...
Then, during the hysteria Senator Joseph McCarthy was generating, Hofstadter in his Age of Reform pointed to some of the early agrarian, Populist roots of McCarthyism-a native, not a foreign blight. He followed with a full-scale study of the history of American anti-intellectualism, and essays on the paranoid style in American politics...