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...shown by Hanauer for the historical facts and actual behavior in the Mideast. Twenty-five years ago, two nations were created, one Jewish and one Arabic -- created with the expressed approval of the Arab leadership. Israel, then two small patches of land connected by an eight mile wide corridor, was immediately attacked by Arabs (armed by the retreating British). It is this attack which created the refugee problem; it is the irrational intransigence of the Arab leaders which held and still holds these refugees as political pawns. Israel, a nation barely one year old, offered then and repeatedly to work...
Newman's thesis, elucidated in a study of the more successful projects, is that the anonymity of enormous high-rise complexes leads to unmanageable and disastrous situations. "In a high-rise, double-loaded corridor apartment tower, the only defensible space is the interior of the apartment itself; everything else is neither public nor private... a nether world of fear and crime." His alternative ("defensible space") returns autonomy to the tenant by making intruders conspicuously out of place. For example, he argues that families sharing a single entry in a low-rise building can control intruders more successfully than many families...
Standing 6 ft. 4 in., weighing 270 Ibs., Melchior was oversize in every way. Soprano Marjorie Lawrence tells of the time when she and Melchior both lived at New York's Ansonia Hotel and she saw him wearing his bathrobe in the corridor. One of the hotel staff explained that "there was no bathtub in the hotel that could hold him, so Lauritz was on his way to the roof-where there was a swimming pool." His talent was just as massive...
...long corridor with locked doors...
Again the lonely corridor...