Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when moonshots started boring people and networks no longer felt like covering them in depth, support for space fell faster than Skylab. Nixon, whose obnoxiousness had interrupted the moonwalk, turned around and canned the last three Apollos. The funds for the proposed space station were cut sharply, meaning that Skylab would be built on the cheap, out of a mishmash of spare parts from the Apollo programs. NASA wanted to put the station into a higher orbit than the one ended in Australia last week, but the money wasn't there...
...more disturbing reason for the willingness to support Carter is that we are in a crisis and we care very little about the moral history of the man who promises to rescue...
...Reich? Each of these three books seeks answers, and in sum they are heartening. Fritz Molden, himself a fighter in the Austrian resistance, puts it best in Exploding Star: "Where there are people who disrupt, destroy and torture there are also, beyond all doubt, others who help, heal and support...
...requests for money from the same fund, but Governor Edward King, a Proposition 13 adherent, wants to trim the council's already inadequate budget by 15%. The private sector is unlikely to fill the gap. Whereas New York City's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall get essential support from the rich corporations headquartered in the city, Boston has only a few home-town companies of any size, notably Gillette, Raytheon and Polaroid...
Good theater is not cheap, and Boston may not be willing to pay. Broadway shows have started bypassing Boston on their tryouts because of insufficient audience support. In the past few years, moderately priced suburban dinner theaters have lured many patrons away from the $25 tickets and distasteful proximity to the combat zone. Observes Friedberg: "Boston is a city with champagne tastes and beer pocketbooks." It is also a city where social climbing is just not done in Symphony Hall. Unlike younger cities, Boston has class that is bred on Beacon Hill, not bought with hefty contributions to the arts...