Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plans call for the building of a four-obstacle ring made up of a high metal cyclone fence, a 6-ft.-deep ditch, a highway for the exclusive use of Red patrols, and a sanitary strip some 500 yds. wide sprinkled with police watchtowers. Where buildings and trees now stand, pink hollyhocks will grow-not so much to beautify the austere scene as to provide the Communist sharpshooters with a clear line of fire...
...Empire Games, there was a reception at which Australian lady athletes "hitched up their skirts and tucked silver pepper and salt shakers and crystal wineglasses into the tops of their stockings or inside their girdles." Flags are particularly coveted: at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Dawn herself stole a five-ring Olympic banner from the Imperial Palace Grounds, was tackled by pursuing cops as she tried to dive into the palace moat. When police found out who she was, they made her a present of the flag. And how about the poor Japanese traveling salesman who committed the error of parking...
...Orchestra's annual Concerto Contest, played Telemann's E-minor Oboe Concerto. Vogel has an enormous, full sound. Although you can never cover oboes up entirely. I used to think of them as being the delicate members of the wind section. I had no idea that Sanders could ring from the sound of a single oboist. His tone was pleasant, and his technique nearly flawless. I wasn't bowled over, but his phrasing and musicianship were equally good. [I was surprised that he hadn't memorized his part.] Music of this period is very transparent. For this reason the orchestra...
...York has been a flop, and decisions are still made by "a calculus of individual economic costs." Bell's concluding imperative is strong: "If the city's economy makes sense today only in regional terms, so must policy." But backed by reason alone it has the hollow ring of all academic imperatives which purport to be solutions...
...contrast to Bell's imperative for regional planning, Banfield's only hope is that extra-political forces--the rising national income, and the growing stock of handme-down housing--will stop the spreading pathological culture. Banfield's conclusion has its own fatalistic ring: Whatever happens "there will always be a "bottom fifth...