Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, practically bankrupt when he took office, was a sound and stable concern when he left. During his twelve years, New York built a new city prison, 67 schools, 262 playgrounds, 14 vast housing projects, two hospitals, great stretches of parkway, the Triborough and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. It bought and consolidated its subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need...
...policy of containing Communism. Last week, Pundit Walter Lippmann asked the disturbing question whether such a policy was feasible at all (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). For at the bottom of almost every phase of crisis was the Soviet Union. From the heartland of Eurasia she irradiated the world along a vast circumference with waves of disruptive power...
...Europe has shrunk," observed Poet Stephen Spender in Manhattan. "It is now only a small nose on a vast body which is Asia." He turned to the subject of writing. "Journalism," said he, "has a way of killing the creative writing in a man, because . . . you have to put more and more of your thoughts into your articles, in a simplified form. . . . Soon you find you're producing a kind of perpetual Reader's Digest of yourself...
...whole body of Picasso's work amounts, in my opinion, to a vast series of brilliant paraphrases on the history of art. . . . In terms of the art of painting, in terms of the living, breathing symbol of man's tribute to the work of God, it is no more than a vast erection of bones in the graveyard of experience...
...like "S.O.B." However, it is difficult to conceive that some part of "Benchley--or Else!" should fail to find the funny bone of any reader. It is a collection of 71 short articles, some of which appeared in print almost two decades ago, and it covers a vast expanse of human experience--pigeons, hiccoughs, botany exams, poker, bisons, thunderstorms, truffle poisoning, colds, culture, love in Hollywood, phobias, Schistosomiasis, etc., ad infinitum...