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...best way to help transportation in the greater metropolitan area is to alleviate the congestion in the core of the city. To this end, they proposed improving the circulation patterns on city streets, enforcing and modifying traffic laws, controlling or monitoring entry ramps on vital expressways, installing a modern-day signal control system, and providing more off-street parking in the city...
Jacques Barzun used to have a proprietary feeling about the U.S. In God's Country and Mine, written a decade ago, he defended modern-day America against carping critics. Apparently, he did not convince himself. Now he sounds like one of the carpers...
British Author Garnett insists that his novel "was conceived as a frivolous gloss upon the most charming story in the Bible." But he concedes that "a parable kept pushing its way in." The nightmarish horror surrounding the ark, he suggests, conjures up the specter of modern-day thermonuclear destruction. And Noah collaborated with God in the destruction of all other life, leading to the question of how many potential nuclear-age Noahs, who fancy they have a direct line to God, are extant...
Toscanini to Pucci. The Italian presence is ever more inescapable in modern-day Argentina. Statues of Garibaldi, Mazzini, and Columbus populate large urban plazas. Street names run from "Venecia" and "Milán" to "José Verdi" and "Arturo Toscanini." Newsstands are thick with Italian magazines, bars flow with Campari, coffee shops with café alia italiana, and restaurateurs serve up steaming hot pizzas, ravioli and pasta frolla-even if they cannot always spell the names. Argentine men favor Italian-style stovepipe trousers and moccasins; many women are forsaking French styles for designers like Simonetta and Pucci...
...absurdities of modern-day civilization, playing football in the rain on a mud-soaked intramural field is outranked in ridiculousness only by watching such a game. Nevertheless, over 500 people gathered at Webster field this morning to watch Bobby Leo and the Harvard freshman football team whip the Princeton freshmen...