Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nightmare." Mumford had dared to criticize Moses' pride & joy, the enormous Stuyvesant Town development of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., whose 24,000 tenants will form a community larger than all but 400 other U.S. cities. Mumford pronounced Stuyvesant Town "a caricature of urban rebuilding . . . considering all the benefits it might have derived from beginning at scratch, on a site as large as this." Snorted he: "As things go nowadays one has only a choice of nightmares. Shall it be the old, careless urban nightmare of post-Civil War New York ... or shall it be the new nightmare...
Beleagured Mr. Mumford was ducking other brickbats. Stuyvesant tenants wrote indignantly that their quarters were equal to anything in town at two or three times the rental and "they feel that they are in heaven." Said Mumford grumpily: "Like almost all New Yorkers, who have spent most of their lives in cramped, sunless, dusty and even garbagy blighted areas, they have no proper basis for judging Stuyvesant Town ... If one judges housing not in terms of rents and profits and prestige but in terms of human decency, the greater part of New York consists, in Patrick Geddes' words...
...sentence on everybody who frustrates or annoys him. Sooner or later, most of his ex-Army pals get on his nerves. Eventually he gets so careless about who is hanged that his wife (Ellen Drew) and his best friend (William Hoiden) run out on him. A lot of the town-folk still regard him as a hero, but at this point the movie becomes an unusual western by seeming to ask: "Is there a psychiatrist in the house...
...When the guys from out of town louse up a job and only 'hurt' somebody, The Enforcer don't fool around none. He has one of his own guys get the two guys who blew the job. That's why very few fellows get hurt around here. They get kilt...
...Baltimore, a rock-ribbed racing town, the fans are used to topnotch jockeys; they have watched the likes of Earl Sande and Eddie Arcaro for years. But last week a 17-year-old "bug boy"† from Texas, Clarence Picou, had the town talking...