Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort the large majority of Americans owned cars and television. The government formally took upon itself the assurance of economic prosperity in 1946, so that by today most people think they have nothing to do but complete their lives without much bother. Most of us can sit in our metropolitan communities, pleasantly board...
True of some, but not of Nathaniel Merrill, the resident stage director of the Metropolitan Opera, whose eleven productions are among the best that the company has ever mounted. The youngest (40) and first American-born director ever to hold that post, Merrill is almost devoid of flamboyance or gimmickry. Unlike such glamorous directors as Franco Zeffirelli and Luchino Visconti, whose personal styles sometimes interfere with musical values, Merrill subordinates himself to the score. Like a musical detective, he searches it and the libretto for clues that will evoke a fresh visualization onstage...
Kain presently is working on a study of migration from the South to Northern metropolitan areas and is doing research on housing markets. A consultant to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, he has been extensively concerned with the problem of race relations...
...town is a self-contained community that includes not only shopping and recreational facilities but sufficient business and industry to provide jobs for everybody-thus preventing it from becoming a mere bedroom for an existing city. A new town can be a satellite city, close to an already developed metropolitan area, or a wholly new urban center erected on virgin land in much the same way that Chandigarh, Canberra and Brasilia were built. For social and economic as well as political reasons, U.S. planners say that the towns should provide a population mix of wealthy, middle class and poor...
...problems of the central cities-problems whose gravity was underscored last week by Urban America and the Urban Coalition in a report that warned of increasing violence and racial polarization. But by accommodating a dizzyingly expanding population, they can at least ease the pressure on America's beleaguered metropolitan areas. Von Eckardt, for one, urges the building of 350 new towns for a total of 35 million people in the next few decades. That would account for more than one-third of the nation's anticipated population growth. What is more, the new towns would occupy only...