Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the 20 seconds of intensive shaking, which registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, was far short of the blockbuster so long predicted for California, the temblor turned peaceful Coalinga into a smoldering ruin. Said John Bunker, 70, owner of a downtown stationery store: "It was like a bomb dropped." At least 47 people were injured, 300 buildings were demolished, and property damage exceeded $30 million. Yet miraculously, there were no immediate deaths...
Spread over 240 acres across the Schuylkill River from downtown Philadelphia, and isolated from its lower-middle class, predominantly Black neighbors, the single campus is home for all of Penn's graduate and undergraduate schools. The sheer size of the school both physically and in enrollment tends to breed diversity and differences sometimes too much according to some students...
...Downtown Fortresses...
...your story "Drawing a Blank Downtown" [April 4], a city's personality and spirit are contained in its past. Its beauty is not in the purity and newness of its members but rather in the continuity of its history, which can only be seen through its older structures. If you eradicate that which relates to an urban center's past, such as its old buildings, you destroy its personality. A city like Rome is beautiful not for its efficiency or cleanliness but for its diversity. Spacious streets, blank walls and giant blocks of steel and concrete may make...
...negating one of his statements in the same sentence. "But her wit clearly entrances her audiences, and has helped secure her reputation. So has the very fact that she is a woman, although that alone explains little, since there are a lot of women composers these days, especially downtown" Rockwell's attitude bespeaks tokenism, and no wonder. Anderson-who is a quite accomplished composer but not by any means a major figure in the musical firmament--is hardly a fair representative of the women in modern American music...