Word: dweller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elements of the fragmented housing industry itself. Until now, the existing scheme of things has been supported by public ignorance and apathy. Yet millions of people are being victimized-the mobile executive who cannot afford a comfortable house, the city resident in the greatly overpriced apartment, the slum dweller who has a tough time finding any housing that qualifies as decent. The lives of these people are indeed being shaped by the buildings in which they live, and they are impatient for change...
...creatures are more aptly named. The crown-of-thorns, a large, reddish brown sea dweller, has as many as 21 arms, all covered with venomous spines that can temporarily paralyze a swimmer and provoke fits of vomiting. Known to biologists as Acanthaster planci, this sinister-looking, 2-ft.-wide starfish is an even greater menace to some of its tiny aquatic neighbors. It likes nothing better than to feed on the living coral reefs where it makes its home...
Bless Jane Jacobs. Lively, lucid, blunt, original, she triumphs by being mostly wrong. Her first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), took thousands of great-American-city dwellers by storm. Written in the heyday of urban renewal, it briskly pointed out that most big, supposedly progressive rebuilding projects were casting a "great blight of dullness" on the already tormented city dweller. In her ten years as an editor of Architectural Forum, she had seen plenty of such projects. The zesty future, she argued, could be found instead by returning to the diversity of the past...
...such slowdowns. That was the pattern in almost every game. Harvard was routing Penn before the Quakers rallied for several late goals and then crushed the Crimson, 4-0, in overtime to take the win. Harvard led Dartmouth, 3-2, at the half, but then the Ivy cellar-dweller came back to triumph, 9-6, for its first Ivy win in three years...
Over the weekend, many a city dweller who stayed in town for the election took advantage of the sunny weather and left for his country home (la petite maison de campagne). There are now more than 2,000,000 people with second homes, and they pack France's narrow country roads with their Peugeot 404s and R.16s. Many others take off to visit relatives in the provinces, for France is a nation that is pulling its young out of the country and into the cities. More than 350,000 Bretons, mostly young, have migrated to Paris, and in their...