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They had worked closely with a couple of planners at the Pratt Institute (located on the northeast fringe of the neighborhood) in drawing up a proposal for coordinated community development. That plan, published in 1965 and sent out to a large number of public officials, is widely credited as the prototype of the Model Cities program. It set the guidelines for the current project...
Occasionally a craftsman of exceptional talent-a Matthew Pratt or Charles Willson Peale-would take up painting as a career. But producing folk art remained largely a part-time occupation of the village cabinetmaker, sign painter, stonecutter or shipwright-or was carried on by the womenfolk at home. The practitioners were nearly always self-taught, untrained in technique or even perspective, and tended to thrive far from urban cultural centers. But they made up for their deficiencies with sharp-eyed observation, an infectious joyousness in their labor, and a remarkable freshness of vision (see color...
...world's biggest and best supersonic transport was Vice President Lyndon Johnson. But as President, Johnson's enthusiasm has noticeably waned. He properly played a passive part in the bitter 30-month competition between Boeing and Lockheed to build the airframe and between General Electric and Pratt & Whitney to make the engines. But in finally declaring Boeing and G.E. to be the winners, the President also withheld for an indefinite period the money they will need to move full speed ahead in building prototypes of the newly named...
...know. In their pursuit of alms among alumni, college fund raisers are now finding missing grads by employing private gumshoes-the same kind that hunt down missing husbands, debtors, stockholders, heirs, and even swains who swindle widows. The detective work is sometimes hilariously effective. When found, one graduate of Pratt Institute came across handsomely, but pleaded: "Please don't send me any mailings with 'Pratt' on them-my son thinks I went to an Ivy League college...
...Pratt, an alcoholic has-been who lives with a menagerie of cats, performs abortions, and writes fraudulent death certificates, Sellers is, as always, brilliant. Two very short scenes have been written for him (there could be no other justification for their inclusion in the story) and these are very good indeed. They are, in fact, the only two good moments in this otherwise long, dull, incredibly unfunny comedy...