Word: itâ
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...parts of the country often start with a structure or an area rather than with people. And they offer facilities, rather than snobbery. Today there is scarcely a U.S. family of means, in any section of the country, that is not going away somewhere for the summer or contemplating it???with nary an envious thought for his neighbor who may be planning a quick trip to Europe...
...crushing weight of swing; the big dance bands had carried off the healthiest child of Negro music and starved it of its spirit until its parents no longer recognized it. In defiant self-defense, Negro players were developing something new?"something they can't play," Monk once called it???and at 19, Monk got to the heart of things by joining the house band at Minton...
...than an understanding of the land itself, we have come to accept with enthusiasm the unprofessional, unappreciative, unskillful butchery of the land that goes under the name of planning. Here we have a tremendous opportunity to point people's tastes and expectations in another direction. And we can do it???the sheer size of the place makes almost anything possible...
...consist either of creating a new community in a relative void?such as Brasilia?or replanning part of an existing city, as with the usual urban renewal project. The prospect of planning from scratch an entire complex within a major population center rather than hundreds of miles away from it???and to do it under private rather than governmental auspices?would seem to most planners an impossible dream...
Search for Culprits. Victor Hugo supposedly said: "Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose hour has come." The tax bill goes to Congress with that kind of impetus behind it???the power of an idea on the move. During 1961 there emerged in the U.S. a history-making consensus that the time has come to do something about taxes. There are broad, often passionate, differences about what should be done, and how and when. But on the central point that the U.S. tax system is excessively burdensome and unnecessarily complicated, agreement cuts across old dividing lines...