Word: woodwarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between Pontiac and Detroit runs Michigan Highway No.1, Woodward Avenue, four lanes in each direction, a fitting testament to these cities and the industry that built and sustains them. Until the late 1960s Woodward acted not only as the principal thoroughfare between the nation's fifth largest city and Pontiac, but also as one last cement haven for the amateur drag racers who did at times barrel down the wide park way at speeds exceeding one hundred miles an hour. Today, staggered traffic lights and radar-equipped patrol cars have quashed what was once a standard form of recreation...
...west from the head of Woodward Avenue the recently completed Pontiac Stadium, which can seat Pontiac's entire population, looms on the horizon. Built by William Ford, brother of Henry Ford II, the stadium holds the 95,000 Lions fans who come each fall weekend to watch the Ford-owned team play. Twenty-five miles to the south, at the foot of Woodward in downtown Detroit, is the partially completed Detroit Renaissance Center, a 70-story hotel surrounded by four 40-story office buildings, undertaken by Henry Ford II himself in the hopes of bringing commerce and the upper classes...
Near the intersection of Woodward and Six Mile Road, a barbed wire fence protects one of the city's closed automobile plants. Sex shops, pornographic movie theaters and topless bars flourish throughout the surrounding area. During the day many of the workers who have lost their jobs since the industry reached its peak three years ago visit these places. Industry-wide auto sales rose 48 per cent last year, but unemployment in Detroit and Pontiac remains at over 20 per cent. Average unemployment in the two cities throughout 1974 hovered at around 30 percent. The percentage of unemployment for those...
...similarity between the Emperor and the Führer was detected. Composer Viktor Ullmann, prolific in prewar Vienna, and Librettist Peter Kien, a young painter and poet, were later sent to Auschwitz, where they died. Their manuscript was rediscovered in London three years ago by British Conductor Kerry Woodward, who presented it with The Netherlands Opera Company in Amsterdam...
...solos varied in quality, with several striking performances among them. In his shining green and white shirt, Michael Russell took hold of one's soul with his dramatic version of "I Found God." The choir smoothly changed the tempo with "Keys to the Kingdom," and Evelyn Woodward picked up the fast, rocking beat in her solo. A better sound system, however, would have helped even the best of the soloists...