Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City government's role in housing is complex, but one element of it emerges clearly. The most direct way we can insure an adequate supply of housing at reasonable cost is to produce one. We must stop talking about "low-cost" housing, at least in the short range; there simply is no such thing, given the high costs of land, labor, materials and mortgage financing. What we can prouce is housing for for low and moderate income families. The only way we have to do that, at present, is to build housing whose cost to those who live...
...which Henry V is properly the shining culmination. Richard II and the two Henry IV plays are markedly greater and more complex works, but Henry V--when allowed to do so--compensates through its ringing patriotism and its moral, legal, and divine certainty. The play is really nothing short of dramatized hagiography, and one should accept the fact or leave it alone...
...reason to feel left out. They too are fed uo, with justice delayed and promises deferred-a fact that Cartoonist John Fischetti expressed in a drawing of an anonymous black imitating the President's "up to here" gesture. Yet viewed rationally, the long-range interests (if not the short-term problems) of the two sides coincide. The slums suffer more from crime and disorder than the suburbs, and blacks, even more than whites, need protection from the lawless. Difficult as it may be for many to believe, the lower middle class and the middle class have as much...
...format of Oh! Calcutta! is rather like that of short short stories and cartoons strung together in the revue fashion of a supper-club show. Though the program does not say who wrote what, the playwrights include Samuel Beckett, Dan Greenburg, Jules Feiffer, John Lennon, Leonard Melfi, Sam Shepard, Tynan himself, and others. Their playlets will doubtless enhance their royalties if not their reputations...
...doubt that we could do a commercial that would relate to a person over 40," he says. "Blacks over 40 still cut their hair short. I can't tune in on their thinking...