Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the speakers were talking in a courtyard across from the hospital, four busloads of riot-equipped poise stood in battalion order along the sidewalk. Police were also stationed in front of the hospital and around the corridors inside...
Deafen the audience. Cudgel it severely about the ears with a blunt amplifying instrument. A hard-rock Modcom musical gives a theatergoer an acoustic third degree. His eardrums are refunded on the sidewalk. However, the test of a good musical score remains unvarying: not whether one can hum the songs but whether one can tell them apart. Hair has a beguilingly individuated score; Salvation does...
...pedestrian viewpoint, for it is the man on the street who is most affected by the urban environment. We're betting that this man would rather have greater setback of buildings allowing more light and air to the street, would appreciate a public sculpture garden to retreat from sidewalk traffic, and might enjoy a terrace-level restaurant where he can look out at an historic area of the city...
...loud noise probably causes heart flutter, headaches and constriction of the blood vessels-not to mention partial deafness. But noise can also be an expression of exuberance, and there are no more exuberant people than the Brazilians. Citizens of Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo hold polite sidewalk conversations by shouting at each other above the city noises. Do they mind? Quite the contrary. "Sāo Paulo is noisier than here," says Housewife Itacy Buarque de Macedo, "but our noise is more simpatico...
...plans for a Faculty housing project on the site, but opposition from neighborhood residents, many of them Harvard professors, killed the plans. The residents, led by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, said the housing would take up the last open space in the area, and cause street traffic and sidewalk congestion...