Word: facet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...number of other reprehensible things-but he is regarded as a Negro who has made it in a white man's world. That makes all the difference. Powell's personal problems, which seem to mount day by day, last week threatened to become an unfortunate facet of the civil rights movement...
...single facet of Goat Island particularly stands out: the performances are individually erratic; the set is unduly drab and natural -- particularly for such a non-theatre as Christ Church where a stylized setting would have been much more appropriate; the blocking is effective at times, and contrived at others. But the finished product somehow triumphs over its parts...
...steering committee, composed largely of University of Chicago men, did accept the proposal. This left observers and delegates to guess what the conference would have decided if it had voted on specific issues. There was general agreement that a resolution calling for the end of class-ranks as a facet in deferment would have passed, as would a more general resolution urging the abolition of student deferments. Not even Tax suggested that the conference support compulsory national service, and debate on variations of the national service scheme was so diffuse that specific proposals could not be assembled...
...asked for $2500 "seed money" to finance an initial independent survey out of his own office. The survey would look into every facet of Cambridge planning, he said, and would definitely include housing, urban renewal, transportation, and education. It would also cover specific City concerns such as the proposed incinerator, the new hospital, and new libraries and schools...
Though personal travel, by auto or plane, is the facet of transportation that most affects the individual American, he pays heavily for transportation inefficiency in other ways. He pays for it in the price of the clothes or the food or the household goods he buys, for it is invariably passed on through the price structure. He pays for lack of planning and inept regulation as his cities become concrete deserts where only autos and auto parks seem to thrive. If he is a businessman, the cost of inefficiency may be high. A 65-m.p.h. train can move steel slabs...