Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge has been rapid, especially, university-related industries which employ large numbers of upper and middle class people. The NASA project will soon bring even more of these relatively wealthy professional people into the city. In addition, much of the housing has passed into the hands of speculators who exploit the students and professional people at the expense of the poor and elderly...
...reasonable by Manhattan standards, as well as three-or four-month rental "concessions." Now there is a desperate housing shortage. While the rental vacancy rate for the nation is 5.4%, it is 1.2% for New York City. The landlords, hardly a charitable lot, can get together fairly easily and exploit the shortage because 250 real estate firms own 80% of the city's 600,000 noncontrolled apartments...
...director. Their replacements had only eleven days of rehearsal before the show opened. Little use was made of most of the auditorium's electronic equipment. There was no one around who really knew how to utilize all of it. During its first few weeks, the show began to exploit the many available effects. They introduced polarized light; original films would soon be added...
...Count's living theatre works just fine until the inevitable ingenue (Ellen Endicott-Jones) upsets all the artificial relationships. Anouilh never has time to exploit The Rehearsal's central conceit for he soon finds himself struggling to protect his ingenue from the cynics that surround her. Hero, the Count's alcoholic friend, takes over and the play sloshes forward lugubriously. Humbert Allen Astredo delineates his drunkenness with sensitivity, but there's just so much Anouilh packed into his long monologues, that he can't help but become tiresome...
...Farmer, black power means economic power--but not exclusively. Some militants have been embarrassed by the similarities between black power and Richard Nixon's "black capitalism." Not Farmer: "I don't favor simply black capitalism. Blacks can exploit just as badly as whites. There is, of course, some advantage to having our own people be the exploiters. But I would prefer a mixed economy with cooperative ownership to just a few entrepreneurs...