Word: sprawls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...vaunted Great Society programs are either in limbo or in trouble. Despite his zealous advocacy of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the agency has been languishing for lack of a director from its day of birth. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare has become an unmanageable sprawl of competing and overlapping fiefdoms...
...Wolfe calls California the most American states Certainly the socio-economic trends that have been sweeping the state in the postwar year--vast urban sprawl, a sublimation of ethnic and class differences, an utter dependence on the automobile--have foreshadowed what is happening in the rest of the country...
...that the U.S.'s automobile explosion would eventually overtake the country's highway system and bring traffic to a full stop. They did not allow for U.S. enterprise. On the East Coast, the continent's most congested traffic corridor and the world's biggest urban sprawl, a motorist can now whip along the 435-mile route between Washington and Boston without ever encountering a stop light...
Conection (Visual Arts at Harvard) has come of age as a Harvard magazine. Its current issue on urban design is well-written, attractive, and consistently interesting to an architectural layman. Happily, it does not attempt to blanket the problem of urban decline and sprawl. It does offer differing points of view on specific problems...
Onassis did not come emptyhanded. Rainier was originally delighted to see him, because the Greek shipping magnate invested some $1,500,000 in 52% of the stock of the Société des Bains de Mer, an Edwardian sprawl of properties that includes the casino, the yacht club, the 60-year-old Hótel de Paris and about one-third of Monaco's 375 acres. Bien, thought Rainier, Ari will also bring in his rich friends, make the roulette wheels spin as they used to before the war-and use the S.B.M.'s reserves to build...