Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADAPTATION-NEXT. An evening of one-acters, both directed with great comic flair by Elaine May. In Miss May's Adaptalion, a contestant plays the game of life as if it were a TV game with penalties and bonuses. In Terrence McNally's Next, his best play to date, an overage potential draftee is subjected to a humiliating pre-induction examination...
Meatball. Efficient disposal of bodies was also a subject of great interest on the tapes. In one 1964 conversation, DeCavalcante and two other men discussed the various types of devices available. One suggested, in the manner of Ian Fleming's Goldfinger, a machine that smashes up old automobiles. DeCavalcante said that he was looking for one that pulverized garbage. Also mentioned was a gadget capable of turning° a human body into a "meatball...
Curmudgeon and Gadfly. As an organic cure for the complex ills of great U.S. cities, Jane Jacobs' program was preposterous. By itself, planned diversity could hardly create a new way of life for urban slum dwellers. Given the economic pressures working upon them, and the present tastes of middle-class and lower-class city dwellers alike. U.S. city planners are no more likely to re-create old neighborhood living successfully than William Morris would have been in rejuvenating Victorian England by establishing a Utopian handicraft community on the banks of the river Wandie. No matter. Despite her mistakes, Jane...
...theory of economics in which personal conviction and anecdote weigh more than statistics. The ingredient essential to the vitality of cities, she asserts, is "new work being added to old." Innovative energy comes from small, independent, hustling entrepreneurs. "The little movements at the hubs," says Jane Jacobs, "turn the great wheels of economic life...
...reverse the traditional assumption that the first cities grew out of agricultural communities. Not at all. Citing archaeological evidence, Jane Jacobs argues that the first cities were founded on trade and actually helped create organized agriculture and animal husbandry. In an age when most Americans have been persuaded that great cities are creeping problem areas, to be deplored and if possible escaped, Jane Jacobs perceives and persuades that cities and the challenge of their problems offer a mighty and reliable means for national progress...