Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech is a fairly good indication of the general level of wit to be found in Putney Swope, a frenzied, almost desperate comedy by a barely emerged underground film maker named Robert Downey. Downey-who bills himself in the credits as "a prince"-has got it into his royal head that what America really needs at this point in its history is another put-down of the advertising business. Accordingly, he has come up with the not totally unpromising notion of a group of black militants taking over an ad agency and bombarding the country with race propaganda concealed inside...
Lerner's account of the visit to the 'Snooze' is good. It should be. He served as Executive Editor of the CRIMSON during 1967-68, and is now a writer for the village voice...
...almost axiomatic that even if everyone in a city is in favor of more low-income housing, just about no one wants a housing project in his neighborhood. If a zoning change is requested to build a housing project on any given site, it's a good bet that thirty neighbors of the site will come down to the council to tell them why the project would ruin the neighborhood. It is difficult to build a countervailing force to such opposition; no one is assured that, if the specific housing project is built, he or his aged mother will have...
...housing crisis. The view is understandable since, for those who fought for it, rent control is the most real action that can be taken. Yet, given the very mixed consequences of the proposal, it is quite possible to reach the conclusion that rent control would do more harm than good. This, more than the fabled dollars of landlords, was perhaps the difference between four votes for rent control and five votes against it. A fraction of the pressure exerted over the rent control issue could easily give five votes in favor of other measures to alleviate the housing crisis...
...concert itself, the fairest thing to say would be that, on the whole, it was enjoyable, particularly if one hasn't a very good sense of pitch. The Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 kin F Major, opus 80, opened the program and nearly closed it. Alexander Schneider, Leslie Parnas, and Murray Perahia showed no life, no energy, and no enthusiasm. Each movement was stodgy, and movements two and three positively died at the end. The cellist performed rather well. Unfortunately the violinist was sadly out of tune. The biggest single complaint I would register against the performance was lack...