Word: landlord
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, Brooklyn-born Dancer Barbara Weisberger started a small ballet school in an old studio in Philadelphia. Funds at first were scarce; she and her two teaching colleagues paid themselves $20 a month, and at least once the landlord locked them out for nonpayment of rent. Thanks to some timely help from the Ford Foundation, the school grew into the Pennsylvania Ballet. Judging by its performances at Manhattan's City Center last week, it is one of the most promising of the new U.S. dance companies...
...Hill or a Harriman. The Penn Central will operate on 40,000 miles of track in 14 states and two Ca nadian provinces. It will run 4,200 locomotives, 195,000 freight cars, and 4,937 passenger cars. It will also be the nation's largest private landlord, with real estate holdings that include Park Avenue hotels and a Pittsburgh office building-apartment complex, a 25% share in the new Madison Square Garden, erected over the rebuilt Pennsylvania Station in New York City, resorts in Florida, parks in Texas and housing developments in California. The diversified corporation will have...
Poetry & Prophecy. All this is a long way from the steamy atmosphere of the familiar Dylan outcry, and Dylan's own musical style has kept pace with his growing control over poetic expression. His melodic style has deepened; the bluesy Dear Landlord (in which Dylan accompanies himself on a tinny barroom piano) is a subtle, intense, spacious tune. Moreover, there are times when he abandons his customary foghorn speech-song in favor of something identifiable as singing...
...York's city hall has been the political graveyard of virtually every man who presided there. Its present landlord may be the exception. On the eve of his second anniversary in office, John Vliet Lindsay is still threshing out the megaproblems of megalopolis, yet refuses to sink below the horizon of na tional politics. His views on the Republican presidential competition make headlines. Fortnight ago, he published his first book, Journey into Politics. Last week, after appearing on a network television program, he starred in the first of a weekly TV series of his own. Then he hopped...
...agreement that American Jewry should involve itself even more in the Negro's struggle. Howard Danzig, executive director of a suburban Detroit synagogue, told the Conservative convention: "Unfortunately, in Detroit as in other cities, the Jewish presence in the predominantly Negro areas is usually that of merchant or landlord. The situation is economically structured for conflict...