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...often, there is a tendency to view the low-income neighborhood as expendable... One chief thrust of the Cambridge proposal is to confront that issue directly, and to test many techniques for preserving a low-income area for its residents and for injecting new and valuable resources into its way of life...
...Bunting's position within the hierarchy, then, has pushed upon her duties which might be more efficiently handled by her subordinates. But the furor over apartments which resulted in the hunger strike developed not just because Mrs. Bunting was thrust into the conflict at its outset, but because her position has been poisoned in the past by her own terrible public relations sense. She has shown a gift for alienating students; her conception of her job has involved her, time after time, in altercations which have reduced students' confidence in her and cast her in an unfavorable light...
...only served as a springboard for his art. The former dismissed as "culinary" the vast percentage of Western dramaturgy and the latter, avowedly, never wrote a word "for art's sake." In performance, to ignore the revolutionary premise of their work is to castrate the thrust of their dramatics. But in New York, today, Brecht and Shaw are performed as Good Liberals with whom a right-minded audience can curl up and agree. This season Galileo was presented at Lincoln Center by a company which seriously confused it with A Man For All Seasons, and a few years ago Heartbreak...
...small two-stage rocket surrounded by a cluster of four conical, strap-on rocket engines. Instead of achieving the major breakthrough in rocket technology believed by the West to have made the Gagarin flight possible, the Russians had simply strapped together enough smaller rocket engines to provide the necessary thrust...
...makes Mr. Johnson swallow with anticipation." When he is angry or irritated, "his mouth forms a huge 'O' and he sounds like a hog caller." He makes telephone calls while he dresses, so that he might be talking about the threat of thermonuclear war "with one leg thrust into the trousers." When he kisses Lady Bird, "he enfolds her in his arms and says goodnight as he says everything else, with authority...