Word: greats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ECONOMY OF CITIES, by Jane Jacobs. With a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers...
...right, let's admit sex is great [July 11]! But when it hits you in the eye with belted monotony on the screen, in books, on the stage under the pretentious guise of the "new morality" (i.e., dressed-up smut) I find it quite tiresome. There's nothing funnier than a good dirty joke, and nothing flatter than a poor one. Seems to me, the plethora of poor ones going the rounds these days is all one hears. Who's laughing...
...read from Genesis: "I will be with you and protect you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land." In Neil Armstrong's home town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, the Rev. Herman J. Weber prayed at St. Paul's United Church of Christ: "Oh thou great architect of the universe, it is only because thy universe is an embodiment of order and harmony upon which we can rely, that we are able to explore with sincere faith the vast imponderables of space and the moon's hidden mystery...
Harvard as ad music in its official curriculum for a little more than a hundred years. In all that time the Music Department as had no other teacher so great as Woody. Yet his undergraduate training was not in music but in history. Perhaps it was this shift from one field to another tat accounted in part for his deepest concern: the musical education of the amateur, the non-specialist. Just as Talleyrand proclaimed that war is much too serious a thing to be left to military men, Woody was convicted that music is much is too important a thing...
...Woody asked his friend the late great Lucien Price to address the Glee Club's annual banquet, Mentioning some powerful music, Price added, in that war year, "Although this world may be no great shakes, the future problematical, and no telling what may become of us, one thing is certain--so long as there is such music in the world, there is always that the world can do to us." Woody's career. right through our war-riven 1960's , was testimony to that view of music's potency...