Word: substandard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee, chaired by Clark Byse, professor of Law, urged the formation of a state authority with strong powers to supervise strictly all realty transactions and to impose severe penalties for any violations of the fair housing act. Concentration of Negroes in "overpriced, substandard housing" persists on a large scale, said the report, because of tactics used by Boston realtors and home owners to defy the law and deny Negro families adequate housing outside certain segregated areas...
Wallant's people are the walking wounded and unofficial dead of the affluent society. They inhabit what is known in officialese as "substandard housing," but they are figures in a land scape of hell. Wallant writes with lyrical affection of falling plaster, the colors of linoleum, the awful caprice of electrical fixtures, and the ebb and flow of cruel plumbing. He sniffs the eternal odors of poverty, sin and despair on stairway, landing and daybed. The flaking walls about his creatures are a barometer of the damp weather in the soul. His theme is the pursuit of grace among...
Revealing Sign. Inevitably, there have been disappointments. About 10% of the refugees still live in substandard housing, including 700 Silesian and Sudeten Germans whose flowerpots and television antennas eerily sprout from the reconverted barracks at Dachau. Many still feel that they are worse off now than they were in their old homes. Only one out of six farmers tills his own land; when he does, it is on a much smaller plot than he owned in the East...
Harvard was bulging at its seams: its House and Yard dormitories over-crowded, its laboratory and faculty office space inadequate, its health facilities scattered and outmoded. The flight of married students and young teachers from substandard dwellings in Cambridge to the suburbs was accelerating. All this formed an unpromising background if Harvard wished to contribute to the general expansion of higher education necessary in the year to come...
...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw, is substandard G.B.S., full of mildewed seventyish garrulities on religion, militarism and the idle rich. A full cast of stars-Glynis Johns, Robert Preston, David Wayne, Cyril Ritchard, Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Ray Middleton-rushes about filling the dramatic vacuum...