Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scenes in all drama are as chillingly cruel as the one in which Natasha upbrades the loyal octogenarian nanny Anfisa and proceeds to advocate kicking her out because the old woman can't work enough, both does not convey sufficient age. (It occurs to me that director Kahn might have improved his production by switching the roles of Misses Maxwell and Reid; the former looks young enough of an equally distasteful albeit quite different Natasha...
...council is now in its summer recess and a special meeting will have to be called to act upon the rent control petition. Yesterday, there was speculation that a meeting might be called for later this week...
USUALLY REGARDED as the chief foe of the universities, Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci makes frequent speeches urging that Harvard and M.I.T. be, in effect, thrown out of Cambridge to some other place, say Waltham. Vellucci doesn't have the slightest chance of doing this, of course, and might not even want to, but his advocacy of such action strikes responsive chords in his East Cambridge supporters. Even in normal times, which these are not, politics in the City are apt to be heavily charged with rhetoric; the passions inherent in the rent control issue were amplified by this political style...
...housing convention might have been one force to help build it, but its battle for rent control convinced many of its members that rent control is the most urgently-needed measure. The loss of the battle appears to have induced many to switch to referendum campaign where their fight for the cherished rent control can continue. Whether the housing convention can lure these supporters back, if only for an evening, to back for example, approval of a housing site is unclear. It may be impossible, for rent control remains the most attractive issue...
Part of the blame might be laid with the possible apathy of the recipients themselves. Because of the program's voluntary nature the state has no way of forcing anyone but unemployed fathers to participate...