Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wave of immigrants swept into the city while disgruntled middle-and high-income burghers fled into the surrounding county suburbs. Gracious mansions became tenements. By 1952, the city was one-quarter slum, another quarter near slum. No new office buildings had been put up in 25 years. Industry pulled out in wholesale lots. Property values and business activity plunged. "You might ask," wrote English Author Geoffrey Grigson in 1951, "why anyone would be proud of such a dump...
Discussing the changes in the House system since the Class of 1939's days at Harvard, Owen said that people "used to kid genially about gracious living," but that now the response "is closer to a Boris Karloff laugh...
Free Fragrance. With the fine flush of success, Barbra has hastily assembled some of the accouterments of the gracious life, but is plainly still out of phase with it. She has rented a penthouse duplex on Central Park West that was once the home of Lorenz Hart dur ing the great lyricist's last years. They have had the place about seven months, and it is still substantially empty, but Barbra is filling it with her own brand of antiques, the pursuit of which is her only hobby. She has an old dentist's cabinet for her ribbons...
Company Wives. Amid general applause for the plan, critics pointed to the 19 "new towns" built earlier throughout Britain, which were supposed to be "an essay in civilization, the means for a happy and gracious way of life." Nearly 550,000 people have already been moved out of urban centers to these garden cities, but many have complained about "loneliness and lack of neighborliness...
Private Zeal. In many respects, IRI behaves like a private enterprise. President Petrilli, 51, a gracious economics professor who directs the many-sided complex from a baroque building on Rome's Via Veneto, encourages the chiefs of its 130 companies to stand on their own with a minimum of bureaucratic stuffiness. IRI has sold to private investors up to 45% of the stock in some of its individual companies, has joined in ventures with U.S. Steel and Raytheon. Italy's leftists have damned IRI as a thinly disguised capitalist entity; on the other hand, conservatives have complained that...