Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...areas. Rents skyrocketed, largely because there was demand for land, and little available housing. Harvard's familiar practice of land-banking--buying up land with apartment buildings and then razing them to build university facilities--is another sign of the scarcity of land in Cambridge. "There is little open space in Cambridge, so we are forced to buy housing as sites for potential buildings," Russel Hill, director of the Harvard Real Estate office, says...
...first time Critic Edmund Wilson visited Brooklyn, he found "a whole new world, which seemed to me inexplicably attractive ... There was space and ocean air and light, and what seemed to me?it was what most astonished me?an atmosphere of freedom and leisure quite unknown on the other side." That description was published 35 years ago. Today, life for many of Brooklyn's 2.4 million inhabitants has taken an all too familiar urban turn. Tales of metropolitan life that came from three Brooklyn neighborhoods last week...
Sure enough, that old fox John Connally, who'd like another chance at the White House, had earlier talked with Republicans in New Hampshire about a one-term Carter presidency. The A.P. dispatch may not have got much newspaper space, but it resonated through the capital echo chamber, which is always receptive to a new catch phrase...
Left with some empty space in this column and the general propensity to expound, however, I will venture some guesses. One is that audiences are lefties. They are lefties because no one but a bunch of intellectuals and students would go to hear someone else talk. Lecturers don't like to get hissed, so only lefties lecture...
...continuity and interfering with its principle missions, the intimate portrayal of a complex and intriguing political personality. Adopting the overused one-man show approach, playwright Dore Schary pays too much attention to minor historical incidents during the Roosevelt administration. He fails to provide the character with the breathing space so essential for success in what has become a tired and formulaic format. As Roosevelt discusses his presidential years, he shifts abruptly from event to event, changing subjects and moving through time too quickly. As a result, the play fails to fully achieve the dramatic, and at times comedic, potential...