Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largely in offices, coffee houses, bars, apartments. But in Passionella, the shy young men, the pony-tailed girls, the woman who sings folksongs "in the original ethnic," the man who says, "What I wouldn't give to be a conformist like all those others," are replaced by a "friendly neighborhood godmother come [by way of a television set] to bring you the answer to your most cherished dreams," and by little Munro, who was drafted into the army at the age of four. George, who "was concerned with his roots" and who "recognized he had no sense of himself...
Paddle Wheels for Power. Oddest-looking satellite yet is one scheduled for launching next month by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to test the possibility of sending a probe to the neighborhood of Venus. There is no point in such a probe unless radio communication can be maintained across 25 million miles, the nearest approach of Venus. Transmission over this distance requires a lot of power. Chemical batteries are too feeble. Nuclear-powered batteries are promising but have not been developed sufficiently. The best bet is solar cells, which capture energy from sunlight...
Everything happens to Gervaise. At the beginning of this grim dramatization of a Zola story, the "best-looking man in the neighborhood"--to whom the lame Gervaise has been informally married for seven years--runs off with another woman, leaving the destitute heroine with two children. At the end, with her legal husband--with whom she had spent a few happy years--dead, Gervaise is homeless and penniless, sitting dazed and sullen in a small...
Other speakers, representing the Community Boating Club, M.I.T., and commercial, civic, and neighborhood groups, presented further objections to the committee, including serious flood danger, loss of recreational and civic assets, and the cost to the city of providing additional schools and services for the project, which, they said, would more than offset any tax benefit that it would provide...
When Mel vine Belafonte brought Harry and Dennis back to Harlem, they moved into a white neighborhood, where Harry passed for a time as a "Frenchy" from Martinique. But he could not keep it up: "Once I got really hot and spilled the beans." After that, the fights were more frequent and more vicious than ever. Belafonte still bears a few of the scars of street combat, but, he says, "the emotional scars were worse. I was good at sports, and when they chose up sides they always chose me first. I was accepted then, but it never carried over...