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Word: lightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

What Cambridge needs in more housing, particularly more law rent housing, to relieve immediate needs, but also higher cost housing to avert such potential pressure on the present low-rent stock. Rent control should be considered in the light of its effects on the overall housing stock of the City, and effect, at least in the long run, is likely to be negative...

Author: By Jerand R. Gerst, | Title: Another Strategy | 3/27/1969 | See Source »

...State wants another strike. There may be mini-confrontations over amnesty, Hare, and Murray, but neither Hayakawa nor the students is willing to take the kind of hard line that will embroil that campus in another six months of horror. And President Nixon's relatively light-handed statement on student protests last week showed Hayakawa that the rest of the country isn't ready for the crackdown either--at least not as a result of S.F. State's example...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: A Little Balance | 3/26/1969 | See Source »

...superficial, so guarded, so deliberately light, and a little bit phony. It was exactly the kind of unsatisfying human interaction that I thought people at Harvard were trying to get away from when they invited us to the "so aptly named" spring festival at Adams house...

Author: By Marilyn F. Kalata, | Title: Hello . . . My Name Is . . . | 3/25/1969 | See Source »

...showing them is diverse in character and conduct; the variety of the aristocrats' feelings and actions is the substance of their social actions. But their entire milieu is doomed, simply because it does not move. Set against Renoir's virile shots of the revolutionaries, simple and full of strong light-dark contrast, the over-refined nobles stand no chance...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: 'La Marseillaise' | 3/24/1969 | See Source »

...THIS IS A little play of puppets...everything happens in it that could never happen, its personages are not real men and women, nor the shadows of them, but dolls or marionettes of paste and cardboard, moving upon wires which are visible even in a little light and to the dimmest eye," Jacinto Benavente says in the prologue to his play The Bonds of Interest. And certainly real people could never be as funny as they were last night in director Paul Cooper's adaptation of the play. Cooper's assemblage of cheaters, misers, scheming ladies, and boisterous servants--especially...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: The Bonds of Interest | 3/22/1969 | See Source »

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