Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republic, into a European office much more like the early Roman emperors . . . This glamorizing of the presidency is the work of that bureaucratic elite which wants to rule the United States in the protecting shadow of a loved and trusted symbol. Kings, emperors, and Führers are built up by ambitious power-seekers who could not be elected to office themselves. Our power-seekers try to make our chief executive into a monarch, and our sober constitutional executive branch into a glamorous imperial household, in which they will wield the hidden powers...
...need for answers is obvious. If there will be more married students, houses must be found. If, as the Design School's study suggests, the local resources in certain types of housing are exhausted, the University must do something--now. If housing for married couples is to be built, land should be bought now. If three more houses are going to be necessary, part of the expense can be averted if the need is anticipated, rather than recognized after it has arisen...
Half of the houses in Cambridge were built before 1900. Such buildings need, but do not get, continual maintainance and renovation if they are to provide safe, healthy homes. Yet at the present rate of replacement, the last will be torn down...
...which have occupied professors for years. In either case, the University can no longer allow "organic growth." The Yard may be a charming anachronism, but there is very little charm in raising a family in a $20 a week cold water flat or crowding four students into a room built...
Schuman, who is now head of Juilliard Music School, has here written one of the best of modern symphonies. The work is built on a recurring chordal scheme, much like a gigantic passacaglia. The music does not surrender itself completely on a single hearing, but is well worth repeated listenings. The harmonies are rocky, the rhythms complex, but the orchestration is clean-cut and the symphony is beautifully paced. Ormandy and the Philadelphia give it a vigorous reading, and the recording is fine...