Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the authors, the 17,000 students came from 27 colleges, "selected to represent different types: public, private, and sectarian institutions; coeducational, men's and women's; white and Negro; urban and rural; with large and small enrollments; and in different regions of the country...
...Brown man is fighting a reputation of middle-class mediocrity. He wants to be Ivy but he has nothing distinctively Ivy to offer, He Cannot be typed beyond "urban" and "conservative." He passes his drinking tradition on to Dartmouth, his "second-choice college" reputation to U. Va. and he dares not rest on the small college theme of friendliness...
Last week, as part of Britain's nationwide slum clearance program, the waiting kids got a real break. The town planners of Crawley New Town, a vast new urban development project 30 miles south of London, decided that henceforth all new pubs built in the district must include a Kiddie Bar, where the little 'uns can find their own solace in ice cream, ginger beer or orange squash...
...nation's most crowded urban areas, highly industrial Cambridge suffers from very poor housing conditions. A WPA survey made in 1941-43 of some of the more crowded areas of the city found that about 86 percent of those surveyed were living in substandard buildings. Conditions have improved only slightly since that time...
Billed as a thriller, Gently Does It scares no one. And a steady stream of undisguised hints wash away any trace of suspense. Against a background of urban England, Oliver, as Edward Bare, plays a limey opportunist who, for a chance to travel abroad, kills one wife and marries a second. A sharp voice for his uneducated but shrewd conceit, the facial expressions which change with the varying moods of flattery and hate, and the complete lack of human warmth all combine to make Bare a wonderful villain. It is this performance which is primarily responsible for keeping the play...