Word: metropolitanize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...child in Cambridge, Mass., Martha Duffy used to satisfy her thirst for Mozart and Verdi by listening each Saturday afternoon to Texaco's Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast. She was usually well prepared. The previous week, she and her sister would borrow the score of the upcoming performance from the local library and, to her sister's piano accompaniment, sing the entire opera together. Other afternoons, she often went to Boston's Fenway Park where she bought a grandstand seat in leftfield. Duffy remembers: "I was a Red Sox fan, and my first crush was on Ted Williams...
Baltimore and Boston have the same number of people in their metropolitan areas, but the Red Sox are the only baseball team in New England and draw fans from a five-state area. Crabtown has Philadelphia and plush new Veterans' Stadium to the north, and Washington, D. C. to the south. The Senators may have moved to Texas, but their ex-fans have been too busy burning Bob Short in effigy and waiting for Congress to do something to cast their toward the Chesapeake...
...public education. While the median family income for Harvard undergraduates has been estimated by one source at around $50,000, that for Extension students is around $10,000, and one-quarter of the Extension students have family incomes of $5000 or less. Extension students come from throughout Boston's metropolitan area, and nearly all either work or hold down family responsibilities full-time. The ratio of women to men in the school is about two-to-one, and about three-quarters fall between the ages of 17 and 36. The school's oldest student was born in 1894, its youngest...
Carter took New York City by a nearly two-to-one margin but trailed President Ford three-to-two outside of the New York metropolitan area...
...hope they like it, because I haven't enough money to build another." No worry. The sound of success could be heard both inside and outside the hall. The man responsible was Master Acoustician Cyril M. Harris, 59, who could already boast of the fine sound at the Metropolitan Opera, Washington's (B.C.) Kennedy Center and, most spectacular of all, the two-year-old Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. Conductor Pierre Boulez was pleased because the 110 men and women of the New York Philharmonic no longer had to force their sound and now could hear each other clearly...