Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social variables such as the percentage of families on welfare and the number of families without a father, but we were surprised to find that overall density of population in a project is not a critical factor. On the other hand, the design-where you put people-is crucial. Height itself is one major element. We discovered that high-rise projects, like the Rosen houses in Philadelphia and Van Dyke in New York, suffered much worse crime rates than those in some adjacent projects, which had similar densities and social types but were built low and broken up into smaller...
...James Montgomery Blues Band, "undoubtedly the best unrecorded (group) in the area" (Jon Landau, Phoenix, March 15, 1972) played the historic and suspicious opening of the Club Zircon in Cambridge to the kind of packed and enthusiastic audiences which had come to characteries the band. Then at the height of a predominantly local popularity and reknown, they were significantly responsible for the impetus toward interest in live blues groups--particularly local, young and white--which has been manifested recently in the emergence of such clubs as the Zircon, Joe's, and the Speakeasy in Central Square. Many will remember jammed...
...pursuit of fame, they have ranged far from Boston and have outgrown the purely local following so notably cultivated over the last year and a half. Lake the J. Geils Band, they hope for a national reputation, national media-oriented identifies as musicians, and national-sized dough stardom, the height of professional success, the logical ambitious step for a band who proved unequivocally to Boston audiences what a mindblowingly good high energy crowd-drawing and of musicians they were. They decided to "take...
Transparent Things is not an old man's book. It is that of an author at the height of his style, and the full complexity of his artistic understanding. It is the skilled work of a man who is still one of the two or three best authors writing English today, and a book which fits its author's own definition of a novel as something to be re-read...
...original shelters were stocked with food, water, medicine and portable toilets in 1963 at the height of the Cold War scare. Because University officials were unwilling to pay for the stocking of the shelters and the Department of Civil Defense lacked funds, Boy Scouts were recruited to fill the 17 gallon water barrels...