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Peter Blake, author of the controversial bestseller God's Own Junkyard, called for a moratorium yesterday on all superhighway construction in the Boston metropolitan area until a long range masterplan has been developed for the city and its suburbs...
...many refreshing ways, the land has remained true to its leaders' vision of a pastoral "Holy Ireland." The Irish spend only one-fifth as much yearly ($8,000,000) for defense as New Yorkers pay each year for garbage collection. They do not support a single superhighway, nightclub, parking meter, strip joint or subway. The suicide rate is Europe's lowest. Crimes of any kind are few and getting fewer-although the authorities admit that the nation's commonest transgression, larceny of pedal cycles, bears watching...
...continents; they are the great conservators, but also the great propagators. Even commercial galleries, seeking prestige, increasingly put on theme shows of not-for-sale work, old or new. If their exhibitions do not happen to stop near by, the art lover need not feel deprived. By jet and superhighway, it would be possible for one man to see all the major exhibitions open this week in the U.S. and Europe before any of them closes. Or he can, as ever, take advantage of the thesis of Andre Malraux: that the camera and advanced techniques of color reproduction can transform...
...major roads between them. Especially congested at peak hours are some of the main streets of Moscow, where dump trucks and haulers vie at a snail's pace with taxis to get from one distant suburb to another. Last week a brand-new 68-mile superhighway was opened in the hope of speeding things up. The road, which forms a ring around the outskirts of Moscow, was begun in 1956 and completed two years before the target date with the help of more than 100,000 students, workers and other Muscovites who put in long hours of volunteer labor...
...September he is going to Iowa to teach there for four months. And then he must go back to Oxford: Christ Church needs his help to stop the government from building a superhighway through the College Meadow. And then there will also be, of course, Things to Do. And somewhere, perhaps, a little bit of Time to Waste...