Word: sprawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short stories in these two collections have widely separate backgrounds-Norway and South Africa-but they both deal with the early 20th century, and the societies described in both are like cocoons with no hint of the world outside or the tumultuous sprawl of history...
...town dump is just a nice place for people to meet, leave trash, vow eternal friendship and go their ways." So spoke Northeastern University's Professor Everett Marston of Duxbury, Mass, one day last week. Duxbury (pop. 4,280), like many upper-middle-income bedroom communities that sprawl around Boston, is the scene of a new form of social phenomenon-somewhat like the old town pump-that is coming to full flower in New England. In Duxbury's town dump, as in Lincoln's, Hingham's and Wayland's, local citizens who can well afford...
...combination, which could be used in any metropolitan area, avoids what Sert calls the "sprawl or squeeze" alternatives. This refers to the tendencies of cities to become either extremely spread out or extremely crowded...
...Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill's giant strength and giant sprawl, in a long-ago tale of a boozing innkeeper-well-played by Eric Portman-and his shattered pose of being a fine gentleman. With Helen Hayes, Kim Stanley...
...downward course of a lifetime. As elsewhere too, O'Neill tells of one whose life would crumble but for his dreams and whose dreams themselves fall apart at last. And as so often in O'Neill, Poet has centripetal force and centrifugal wastefulness, giant strength and giant sprawl, sure theatrical instincts and wavering dramatic imagination...