Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overhaul selected slum areas in 60 or 70 cities. A comprehensive attack, it is more than a mere brick-and-mortar program, concerning itself with such nonhousing problems as schooling, unemployment, health and recreation. The plan was approved by the Senate last week, but faces a rough-fight in the House-a possibility that the President clearly had in mind in publicly urging the Congress to action...
...number of people actually vulnerable to such crimes, says Professor Robison, the crime clock presents a distorted picture: "Since the base figures cover an entire year, the number of offenses should be divided by 365 days to represent the chances that any one person would risk. Utilizing this method, rough calculations for murder in 1964 suggest that in the country as a whole, the chance of being, murdered on a given day is approximately one in two million...
Mayer's Woyzeck is a veritable diamond in the rough: the set looks unfinished, the lighting is often unfortunately absent, the stage hands scramble conspicuously for the props during scene transitions, sometimes the actors don't seem aware that other actors are on stage with them. But it doesn't matter. When all is said and done, Woyzeck is an exciting and a fascinating show, one which transcends its technical handicaps easily. The best in it is Mayer's best and that's saying plenty...
...more mysterious-than California's Rand Corp., a private, nonprofit "think tank" located in a plain white building in Santa Monica. And of all the high-powered highbrows who have helped build Rand (for Research and Development), no one has been more effective than silver-haired, rough-featured Franklin R. Collbohm, 59, head of the organization since it was created under the patronage of Army Air Forces General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold 20 years...
...String Quartet by Stravinsky and the Beethoven C-sharp Minor Quartet, Op. 131. The Stravinsky, written in 1920, is a little-heard work that was also scored for wind ensemble. It shows the influence of Russian folk-music, but its construction focuses on an effort to draw a rough, guttural sound from the instruments, and it demands a great deal of technical competence of the players. The Guarneri Quartet measured up in every way to its challenges, and provided a startling contrast to the Romanticism of the Brahms...