Word: containment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parliamentary skill. "The pages of history are full of the tales of those who sought the promise of the city and found only despair," he told the Senate. "From the Book of Job to Charles Dickens to James Baldwin, we have read the ills of the cities. Our cities contain within themselves the flowers of man's genius and the nettles of his failures." Robert Kennedy called it "the best speech I ever heard in the Senate...
When Selective Service announced last February that it would no longer defer most graduate students, academe responded with alarm. Harvard President Nathan Pusey complained that first-year classes this fall would contain only "the lame, the halt, the blind and the female." The Council of Graduate Schools predicted that most such classes would be slashed in half. Now most graduate school deans concede that their anguish was unwarranted, or at least premature. Fall enrollment will be surprisingly close to normal...
...with the late Dinu Li-patti, particularly in the slower etudes. Vasary seems to have absorbed Chopin's dreamy melancholy. He etches long, unhurried lines of somber melody, but when the music calls for it, he can be a rousing bravura player as well. Opuses 10 and 25 contain some of Chopin's most familiar writing, but in Vasary's hands, one never hears the quotation marks around the tunes...
...least two days, and sperm for about 36 hours. Cross says that in the first half of the ovulation cycle, a stale sperm may fertilize a normal egg, and in the second half, a normal sperm may fertilize a stale egg. Either way, he believes, the stale component may contain a deteriorated chromosome and cause a fetal abnormality...
Another ingrown cliche concerns the value of "green belts" that girdle some cities. On planners' maps, green belts look wonderful. In reality, says Whyte, they have never served to contain a city's growth or to afford useful green space for its people. If open space just sits there without a positive function such as public park, golf course, or high-grade farm, Whyte says, it will surely be lost to a competitive good cause, like housing. In fact, the true theme of The Last Landscape is contained in Whyte's pithy phrase about open land...