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...begin with, this musical about gobs on an amorous shore leave never ranked as more than a passing diversion. The book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green bear the same resemblance to a great musical comedy that Levittown does to the Taj Mahal. Ron Field, director and coproducer, has enlarged the definition of chutzpah by re-choreographing the Jerome Robbins dance numbers. Leonard Bernstein's music holds up best, and its peppy dissonances and romantic melodic line serve to season the overall inanity. Key Performers Bernadette Peters, Phyllis Newman, Donna McKechnie, Ron Husmann, Jess Richards and Remak...
Clemente, Levittown, Burbank and Great Neck) and the Estate Zone (Grosse Pointe, Palm Beach, Newport and Nob Hill). Whites may buy in any and all sections. Not so blacks. Welcome to buy and pay rent in the Ghetto or Integrated Zone, a black player must have $1,000,000 in net assets before buying into the Estate Zone. And he is blocked from ownership in the Suburban Zone-unless he either finds a white owner ready to sell privately ("perhaps," as the rules suggest, "at a premium"), bids highest at a white's bankruptcy auction, or lucks onto...
...offenses and larceny by the young are on the rise." The report makes clear that it is no longer justified, if it ever was, to think of suburbia only as a split-level heaven with neat picket fences. In fact, the term suburbia has become too broad; it covers Levittown as well as Greenwich, and some of the wealthiest communities have slummy enclaves next to the commuter-train tracks. According to 1960 figures, Pittsburgh's suburbs had more substandard dwellings than the central city, and poor families around Los Angeles outnumbered those in the city's heart. With...
...America, and "the problems of the cities" are pretty much synonymous with the problems of America. To be sure, there are vast physical and psychic differences between Manhattan and some of the leafy streets of its sister borough of Queens, and between Queens and Scarsdale, and between Scarsdale and Levittown, and between all of them and Duluth, Minn. But they are all "urban," and they must all contend with traffic jams, parking, pollution, shortages of hospitals, parks, police and even water, usually with inadequate schools and spreading slums, and always with taxes and America's weird tangle of municipal...
...House and Cambridge; David P. Handlin '65, of Adams House and Cambridge; Alan M. Tartakoff '65, of Kirkland House and Cambridge; James L. Turk '65, of Dudley House and Arnold, Pa.; John E. Veblen '65, of Winthrop House and Seattle, Wash.; and Bunil Yang '65, of Dunster House and Levittown, Pa. The Knox winners each receive $3000 to study one year at a University in the British Commonwealth...