Word: ruin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surrounded by prospering suburban developments, the partly completed subdivision 18 miles from downtown Los Angeles had sunk into dreary ruin. Some 275 families lived in Bellehurst, but among their luxurious (up to $55,000) ranch homes stood the vandal-and weather-ravaged remains of another 450 abandoned houses, many only half-built. During eight years of neglect, streets caved in; tumbleweed rolled across once well-kept lawns and against the legs of curious sightseers. Golfers at Bellehurst's Los Coyotes Country Club were forced to climb over rotting piles of lumber and weed-cracked concrete slabs when they tracked...
...simple. Mr. Kemper and Miss Crouse have wisely avoided the temptation to demonstrate their ability with technically difficult movements. The success of the evening depends so entirely on the performers' ability to harmonize the three elements of sound, movement, and light that a flawed performance by any one would ruin the whole. And the dancers' execution, in the limited scope they have set themselves, is hard to fault. The attractiveness of these two dancers lies in their fine sense of timing, of rhythm, and in their gracefully controlled exuberance...
...wouldn't you know someone'd turn up and ruin it all? He's John Davidson, a singin' journalist-they're the wust kind-who finds the shiny-eyed eldest daughter (Lesley Ann Warren) to his likin'. Trouble is, the boy's a Ree-publican, and Democrat Grandpa finds him ree-voltin' Eventually Davidson talks the family into drivin' their folks' wagon on down to his home in Dakota, but that don't make no never mind. It's feudin' and fightin' soon's they...
...them still loyal to Johnson. Only three, in New York, Oregon and Tennessee, were willing to come out publicly for Kennedy. The initial reaction among congressional Democrats, even those sympathetic to Kennedy personally and on the major issues, was one of alarm rather than support. "He'll ruin the party!" was the reflex comment of several Capitol Hill Democrats. Most congressional Democrats and party officials in the states know that they face a tough campaign already and that a fight at the top can only make their own problems more serious...
Listen, Harvard, here you are, giving money to this war, giving brains to it, living on its fat, letting it ruin you and all you believe in. How can you let that happen? Perhaps there are no solutions to the money problems and to the problems of how to "take a stand," perhaps there are no solutions. Still, to admit the situation exists is a first step, and you won't even do that...