Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urban leader who prides himself, not without justification, on having helped to educate national thinking about cities. Lindsay has not done nearly enough in these areas. He now has enough political breathing space to mention the subject of population control; to avoid it is surely no less devious than to avoid Vietnam, even if New York City's population growth has long since left its political borders behind...
There is probably nothing to be done. Every day plans are being made to tear down Broadway theaters and replace them with parking lots and office buildings. Producers are going to the movies or the stock market or off-Broadway (where, oddly enough, ticket prices are now more or less at Broadway levels and the quick Broadway-style flop is becoming more and more common). A few years ago a producer had about a one-in-nine chance of coming up with a hit; now the odds are closer to twenty...
...paper to soften the black lines. Sometimes by wiping the ink off the plate before printing, he let light from the surface of the paper glow through the network of lines. Intricate juxtaposition of black and white makes the billowing robe of a priest glitter as though it were done in black and gold oil paint...
Charles DeGaulle once said of the sudden German invasion and conquest of France in the terrible days of May, 1940, "It was a bolt of lightning that lit up the darkened sky and revealed the Third Republic in all its ghastly infirmity." Perhaps bursting bombs and burning huts have done the same for the American Republic...
...HARPO," the Harvard Producing Organization, gave its first show last night. It is a collection of one act farces on married life, wedded together as Married Alice. All three are superbly done...