Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American cities more than most others suffer from the good intentions of urban planners. A case in point is the swing to highrise, low-rent housing projects in the 1950s. Built to literally lift the poor above the grime of slums, they instead deteriorated into vertical slums that now contribute so much to the congestion, isolation and ugliness of U.S. cities that urban planners often must wish that they could just knock them down and start over from scratch. St. Louis will soon do just that...
...unruffled testimony is to believe -perhaps a bit too easily-that demolishing their inquisitors' tangled logic was child's play. It undoubtedly took a very clear mind and great emotional stability to stand up to such harassment. On the other hand, most of the psychiatrists appear to suffer from unresolved authority conflicts. Take the exasperated analysis of Medvedev bv one Dr. Lifshits, the book's most visible villain: "Another person with his intellect would be able in time to adjust and adapt-this is the normal thing-but Zhores Alexandrovich is unable to do this. He just...
...parodies, its unavoidable weakness in the occasional dips into ho-hum solemnity. Playwright George Herman's academician alter-ego elbows aside the comic dramatist, forcing a meaning which the humorist could carry less intrusively. Herman's over-seriousness trips us the cast as well. The two straight scenes suffer from awkward blocking and sags in tempo while the comic sections skip around similar problems. What's worse, the dialogue smothers itself under a dead weight of philosophizing. Fortunately, Herman's didactic compulsion interfere only infrequently, and the comedy is allowed to bounce ahead...
Consequently, its fast break may suffer, and with it, the offense. All three big men will play tonight, but Harrison is not sure how effective they will...
Like many another established institution, the U.S. press tends to suffer criticism badly-even when it comes from within. Editors do often read with respect the magisterial preachments of the Columbia Journalism Review, which for ten years has ranged with cool competence over the triumphs and trials of American journalism. But the C.J.R., published bimonthly by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, has neither the staff nor the space for consistent critiques of how the press performs at the local level...