Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Outlining the task ahead. Johnson said that "in the remain der of this century, in less than 40 years, urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build in our cities as much as all that we have built since the first colonist arrived on these shores. It is as if we had 40 years to rebuild the entire urban U.S." Compounding the burden, he explained, is the present distressed state of U.S. cities: over 5,000,000 run-down or deteriorating homes, pockets of deCay in the heart of most cities, and suburban crawl...
...high point of the evening was the performance of Hindemith's symphony Mathis der Maler, made up of three sections from his rarely performed opera on the life of Grunewald. Intonation is a major problem in Hindemith. Chords follow one another in the most improbable succession; for the results to be intelligible, nearly every chord must be tuned up separately, and the musicians must have rehearsed it enough to remember what those unorthodox progressions sound like. It takes a lot of involvement and intelligence to play Hindemith--it's impossible to bomb through...
...named Herman Boeckler grew so enthusiastic after a visit to his lots that he not only bought more property but formed a Deltona Club back home. Even some of Europe's lesser nobility have been attracted. One of them, Düsseldorf's blonde Baroness Praxedis von der Osten-Sacken, bought seven Deltona lots for $16,075, "because the land and homes are ridiculously inexpensive. Besides, I love the sun, and I plan to move to Florida...
...Erhard from the start tried tostare le grand Charles down. He did not have a chance. When it came to the question of grain prices in the Common Market, Erhard held out for twelve months, but finally caved in. Anxious to share in the West's nuclear arsenal, der Dicke pinned his hopes on U.S. zeal for the multilateral force, only to have the Americans lose interest and leave the Germans out on a limb. Last week, as Erhard arrived in Paris for his latest meeting with France's leader, he could hope to be received with compassion...
Still rankled by memories of the 1962 Der Spiegel press flap, when over-zealous German cops arrested staffers and raided the magazine's office after an article disclosing classified NATO information, the German press was predictably caustic about what the Sü'ddeutsche Zeitung aptly felt was "making an elephant out of a mosquito." At week's end the Cologne prosecutor had still not filed an indictment, and everyone was hoping that the Shah would decide to settle for Neven Dumont's personal apology and thus bring a quiet end to the tempest in an inkpot...