Word: wasteland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks later, she and eleven others met to compare notes. When the numbers were totaled up, the results were surprising enough to touch off a public debate. "The streets of downtown Boston are a treeless wasteland," began a story at the top of the Globe's front page. The Parks Department had to admit it had no idea how bad the situation was. Almost 75 per cent of the city's streets had no shade...
...week's end, the blaze had burnt itself out, leaving much of the island a wasteland of charred chimneys. At least 52 Tasmanians died in the fire, and more than a thousand homes were destroyed; total damage was estimated at $500 million. Flying into Hobart when the smoke cleared, Prime Minister Harold Holt walked amid the rubble of what he called "the nearest thing to a blitzed city that I hope we ever see in this country." Some stunned survivors thumbed through Old Moore's Almanac for 1967 and laid the blame on the stars. Said Moore...
TELEVISION Ever since its birth in 1952, U.S. educational television has been lost somewhere between the Vast Wasteland and the Promised Land-chronically short of operating capital and always uncertain where the next grant was coming from. Concerned by ETV's continuing plight, the Carnegie Foundation in 1965 asked M.I.T. Corporation Chairman James R. Killian Jr. to head a commission charged with finding a solution.-Working with a $500,000 budget, committees and subcommittees made their recommendations, and commission members spent 28 days together agreeing on a report. Last week the foundation published Public Television: A Program for Action...
...President's funeral became a heart-moving personal experience. "Television held the country together over the transition period in a unique way and helped preserve the whole democratic process," says onetime FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who exempts TV news from his charge that the medium is a "vast wasteland...
...between classes looking at a reserve book, there is no place for them to go. While Radcliffe once housed its books midway between the Quad and the Square (and conveniently across the street from the Graduate Center where many Cliffies eat lunch), now there is nothing but an intellectual wasteland stretching the long mile up Garden Street...