Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RICHARD STRAUSS LIEDER (London). While Strauss's songs unquestionably sound better when sung by a soprano, Hermann Prey does all that a young rich baritone possibly can. While he cannot claim Fischer-Dieskau's crown as a lieder singer, his open, direct approach gives this record considerable charm...
...GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, by Giorgio Bassani. The author was responsible for the posthumous publication of Lampedusa's The Leopard, and he has learned much from the master. Bassani's gracefully written novel depicts the elegant, decadent world of a rich Jewish family and its confrontation with Fascism and death...
...Rich in the same phosphates that fertilize a farmer's crops, the sewage triggers a fantastic growth of algae on the lake's bottom. Some 87 tons of phosphates are dumped into the water each day, and each pound is capable of breeding 350 tons of slime. Because dead blue-green underwater plants rob the water of its oxygen, much of Lake Erie is now a "dead" sea incapable of supporting any fish life. When the algae eventually breaks off and floats to the surface, it clogs commercial fishing nets, blocks water-intake pipes and washes onto beaches...
...publicity is giving the BRA the image among the voters as an agency of ogres, evicting the poor for the of the rich. One BRA tells the story of filling out a in which he listed his as "Boston Redevelopment The lady who processed began to berate him as a brute. "My God," he shook "She didn't even come from affected by urban renewal." last Monday's malee in the 12 people were arrested, one Harvard student, James '64, was evicted, along with wife and eight-month-old child. of the more partial observers the sit-in that took...
This new action by the Mayor was apparently aimed at neutralizing one of the strongest and most explosive arguments of the renewal loss - that poor residents were being deprived of what was theirs so that some rich sharpies could make a killing by putting up hurry apartment buildings. North Harvard leaders pointed to the fact that the developers of the lucrative site, Stadium Apartments, had been selected without competitive bidding. They also kept mentioning that, of the three principals behind the development concern, one was the former owner of Suffolk Downs and another the present owner of Rockingham Raceway. They...