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In the process, a new scientific diagnostician has been born. Not just a city planner, not just an educator, not just a politician, he is some of each-and something more. The "urbanologist" aspires to be a student of the entire city, an ecumenist of the metropolis, whose concerns go...
Of all the hostile environments that have challenged the fortitude of man, few have proved so obdurately unconquerable as one that he created for himself - the 23 sq. mi. of Manhattan. In the past two years alone, the metropolis has undergone ordeal by blackout, smog, race riot, drought, blizzard, transit...
Byzantine Bickering. Arriving at Athens' Metropolis Cathedral for the enthronement ceremony, the new primate was wildly cheered by crowds shouting "Axios! Axios! [Worthy! Worthy!]." In his installation address, he pledged a sweeping reformation for the Greek church. Referring to moral scandals that have rocked the hierarchy, he vowed to...
Canadians today are more than willing to pay the piper. There are innumerable signs that Canada is coming of age in the arts. Much of the awakening is due to vigorous Government participation in the arts, such as Canada's imaginative National Film Board, which has put Canadian documentaries...
In pre-Communist days, Canton was China's historic capital of insurrection. Secret societies flourished in the teeming tearooms of the wealthy southern metropolis, and assassination was a familiar way of death. It was in Canton that the Opium War began. It was there that Sun Yat-sen'...