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...oxen" by many Czechs) blithely pumped billions of kroner in subsidies into moribund enterprises in order to make their master plans come true on paper. By 1963, Czech economic growth, which had been booming at 8% in 1949, had skidded to nothing-indeed, it actually was in decline, an unheard-of event in a planned economy...
...violence in the black ghettos. Moreover, the swift deterioration of some public housing projects occupied by Negroes leads many whites to believe that the arrival of a Negro family is the certain prelude to garbage in the streets, broken windows, cockroaches and rats-even though these conditions are unheard of in such carefully maintained middle-class Negro areas as Chicago's Kingston Green...
...music from competing camps in the park can be distracting. One recent performance by the Municipal Concerts Orchestra was so bombarded by the thumping, amplified rock 'n' roll of The Young Rascals near by that, for many listeners, Schubert's Unfinished became Schubert's Unheard. More often, however, musical textures from silk to denim mingle as harmoniously as their motley adherents, thousands of whom are experiencing for the first time the special pleasures of music against a backdrop of lakes, trees and the glittering towers surrounding the park. As Municipal Concerts Conductor Julius Grossman says...
...growth and complexity of 20th century America seemed to require ever more powerful and centralized administration, and Theodore Roosevelt had already shaken the Senate by doing something nearly unheard-of-he presented his own program, the Square Deal. Following Roosevelt's example, Wilson dared officially to present "Administration" bills. The Senate found itself organized under strong party leadership directed from the White House. In 1917, when a minority balked at the arming of merchantmen and launched a filibuster led by La Follette, Wilson denounced them publicly as "a little group of willful men." Diehard Senators called the statement "little...
...Moscow. Bitterly denounced during a Stalinist purge of 1946 as a decadent "half nun and half prostitute," she nevertheless wrote such finely chiseled, romantic and often mystical verse on love and faith that the Kremlin allowed her to publish again in the '50s and granted her the almost unheard-of privilege of a religious funeral though, as reflected in Requiem (1963), she had never forgiven the harsh Stalin era, when "only dead men smiled, glad to be at rest...