Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the proposed "Ivy League" seminar--and other meetings of schools with common problems--can be of more value than NSA has been. But, even with an improved NSA or with any of the alternatives to NSA, the question remains whether any intercollegiate organization can prove genuinely worthwhile so far as Harvard is concerned...
...metropolitan-area government was test-launched in Florida's Dade County 16 months ago, when voters okayed a single "Metro" charter for Miami (pop. 290,000) and 25 satellite municipalities (see map). Urban experts and harassed civic leaders in other states looked up from desperate struggles with their common problem-how to develop unified plans and services throughout a central city and its independent suburbs-to pray for Metro's success. Foreign specialists came to study Metro as they once studied TVA. But, with no politicians to defend it, the new idea became an easy target...
...silent movie bit is good for some wonderful parody sequences and some elegant, expensive Peter Larkin sets. Unfortunately, it also provides the Kerrs with an opening for an improving lecture on the cultural mission of the nickelodeon, by way of proving that a movie-director hero is not "a common, on-the-make hustler," but an idealist and an artist. For my money, he's still a common, on-the-make hustler, loaded with moral earnestness in an attempt to season a piece of high-quality hackwork with maladroit and dubious "social comment." (This pseudo-moralism is the second-worst...
...wrote that the seminar proposal "reflects a kind of provincialism which I hope is not representative of the scope of interest of Harvard students." He asked that emphasis be placed on "what Harvard can do to contribute to the solution of problems which are the common concern of all American students...
Although the Architects Collaborative is still working on blueprints, the general features of the changeover have been decided upon. The basement will contain an audio workshop for language learning by tape recording, and the first floor will contain a common room and "social room" to be used for teas, receptions and programs of language clubs...