Word: megalopolitan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...players into this disaster. His prime error is to reduce the play to some quirky personalities on a bare set; its true home is a realm-the great stage of Rome. Dunlop has given us a Rome sans populace, sans armies, and devoid of the pervasive presence of megalopolitan power-perhaps the most potent character in the drama. The Roman state is what stalks the minds and characters of the men who conspire to kill Caesar. It is never remotely felt here...
More a book for Dodger fans than for coin collectors, the consecutive assemblage of articles and photo essays dedicates its efforts to saving and revitalizing buildings that are communal symbols, to preserving, in this conglomerate and megalopolitan age, America's forgotten communities, be they towns, farms, neighborhoods, schools or City Halls...
...prone, and they rather relish it. Muggings, burglaries, strikes and technological failures of all kinds form part of the daily news fare. A New Yorker would count the day lost if he could not regale an out-of-towner, or a friend, or himself, with some vivid tale of megalopolitan woe. The past master of this urban gallows humor is Neil Simon, and in The Prisoner of Second Avenue he has written his finest play since The Odd Couple...