Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they'll see will be the gatehouse entrance, the top of the roof of the main house, and a couple of miles of tortured stone walls on either side of the country road past the farm. Part of the Peace Corps could be used to rebuild them, as in the old WPA days...
...historic messages, one to Latin American diplomats at a White House reception and the other to Congress, President Kennedy launched what he called a "vast, new ten-year plan for the Americas" and promised massive aid, "just as we helped to provide the resources adequate to help rebuild the economies of Western Europe." As important as the cash was Kennedy's high degree of sensitivity to the trends, pressures and demands of Latin America today. Some Kennedy responses: ¶ Latin Americans insist that long-range economic development must be paralleled by quick social change. Kennedy proposed that his plan...
...would start a drive to rebuild it-and chip in conspicuously himself. He is beloved by the clergy for his contributions and for giving them what is generally known as "the clergyman's discount," i.e., cars at cost. He sponsors an annual Lake Michigan endurance swim, spends $1,000,000 a year on advertising...
...removed to the first floor of a shabby yellow frame house on Mt. Auburn Street, Schuster has begun to rebuild his collection. In addition to the ceramics, he has assembled assorted graphic works, by far the most attractive of which are a group of Matisse lithographs, Florilege des Amours de Ronsard. Their graceful lines and warm color provide a welcome contrast to the drab rooms; even more striking is the difference between them and the highly stylized, gimmicky woodcuts and engravings that grace the remaining wall space...
...grew up with the idea of buildings on stilts," said Sullivan, taking a puff on his cigar. "I want to rebuild Cambridge." Cambridge, he says, has more open space than any city around, and he has taken upon himself the task of filling it. Because he has scored one major victory (and several minor ones), he is calmly optimistic, despite the strong opposition that is apt to greet his ideas. Although thwarted in his attempt on the waters of the Charles, he registered a smashing success with his motel (now the Treadway) on stilts over a parking lot in Brattle...