Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rarely extends to the notion that public squalor includes the penury and squalor of public building and city planning. Indeed, the very persons who will be the first to demand increased expenditures for one or another forms of social welfare, will be the last to concede that the common good requires an uncommon standard of taste and expenditure for the physical appointments of government and of the public places of the city. Even those most vocal in support of governmnt support for the arts will resist, even reject the manifest fact that architecture and urban planning are the two arts...
...earlier investigations of the series, the tone was sometimes indignant. This time, appropriately, there was an aura of bemusement too, an awareness that vanity often takes precedence over common sense. Asked Narrator Dick McCutchen: "If you feel that a $10 jar of something or other has made you look dazzling, and we tell you that it couldn't have possibly made any difference, except in your mind, does it mean that you have wasted your money...
...Wednesday afternoon, we turned in our bursar's cards to take collective responsibility for the demonstration and sit-in at Mallinckrodt. Our actions were based on quite divergent judgments of the factors involved; however, our differences were transcended by our common commitment to anti-war protest...
...planned, the House will consist of a 21-story main building surrounded by three five-story sections. The low-rise sections will contain the dining hall, library, common rooms, and rooms for resident tutors and a few students. The bulk of Mather students will live in the 200-foot all tower...
...Wednesday afternoon, we turned in our bursar's cards to take collective responsibility for the demonstration and sit-in at Mallinckrodt. Our actions were based on quite different judgments of the tactics involved. However, our differences were transcended by our common commitment to anti-war protest...