Word: plateaus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unspoiled area just northwest of Baltimore was even more impressive. With 44,500 acres of farms and country estates, the area was a natural target for tract developers and subdividers. Even so, McHarg turned "progress" from sprawl to beauty: his plan concentrated all developments on hills and plateaus, leaving the valleys open forever. Endorsed by landowners and the city, the scheme opens the area to 83,000 new residents by 1990 -without helter-skelter destruction of the rolling countryside. Going on from there, McHarg's firm recently completed another enlightened development plan for the seven counties around the twin...
...optation is not in itself evil. But the SDS demands can be met, SDS is exerting pressure for concrete achievements. "Stop squeezing the life out of me" is unanswerable, and its effect ends when the excitement ends. This type of romanticism provides no plateaus where we can stop and rest. If it does not succeed entirely, it will have entirely failed; and the irate alumni will be right-we will have disrupted a great university to lengthen our spring vacation...
...optation is not in itself evil. But the SDS demands can be met, SDS is exerting pressure for concrete achievements. "Stop squeezing the life our of me" is unanswerable, and its effect ends when the excitement ends. This type of romanticism provides no plateaus where we can stop and rest. If it does not succeed entirely, it will have entirely failed; and the irate alumni will be right--we will have disrupted a great university to lengthen our spring vacation...
...optation is not in itself evil. But the SDS demands can be met SDS is exerting pressure for concrete achievements. "Stop squeezing the life out of me' is unanswerable, and its effect ends when the excitement ends. This type of romanticism provides no plateaus where we can stop and rest. If it does not succeed entirely, it will have entirely failed; and the irate alumni will be right--we will have disrupted a great university to lengthen our spring vacation...
...optation is not in itself evil. But the SDS demands can be met, SDS is exerting pressure for concrete achevements. "Stop squeezing the life out of me" is unanswerable, and its effect ends when the excitement ends. This type of romanticism provides no plateaus where we can stop and rest. If it does not succeed entirely, it will have entirely failed; and the irate alumni will be right--we will have disrupted a great university to lengthen our spring vacation...