Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur Penn's new film, Alice's Restaurant, is an attempt to construct, of all things, a comedy around this sadness. It works. It works so well that I started crying about halfway through the movie and didn't really recover until the next morning. I don't even remember the last time I cried for a second in a theatre, but I had to cry during Alice's Restaurant. I had to cry to keep from going insane...
...group studying the operation of research in American universities confronted its leader with the charge that he was manipulating them. The resulting discussion yielded great insight into the often manipulative workings of researchers. Another group, studying "Legitimacy and Authority," was getting nowhere with intellectual discussion and decided to construct a psychodrama. The device yielded vivid non-intellectual insights which they then successfully integrated into their theoretical models...
Last April's protest of the planned razing of the homes in this area led to the Corporation decision to construct 1100 housing units in Boston. Rose and Associates is the firm favored by Edward G. Gruson, assistant to President Pusey for Community Affairs, to handle the construction, but no final decision has been made...
...leisure time. Many of the vacationers, hunters and skiers who motored up new highways to Windham County decided to buy second homes. They, in turn, attracted developers, who quickly snapped up big parcels of land. So far, subdividers have built 4,216 vacation houses; by 1974 they plan to construct another 5,000. Naturally, land prices and property taxes have soared. In 1967, the owner of a 55-acre wood lot in Guilford paid $24 in annual taxes; today he pays $585. As a result, some residents can no longer afford to live in Windham County, and have put their...
...very first opportunity for such responsible action occurs on the Sachs Estate, a vacant six-acre site on the Cambridge-Somerville line. Following years of opposition by faculty members living in the area, which served to prevent any construct oin, theto? Rbrc etaoi etaoin N.. prevent any construction, the University decided to build about 120 units. Under pressure from within the University and the community, the number has been increased to 300 units, and a development proposal will shorly be submitted to the City Council for necessary zoning...