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...single-handedly defeated one of the earliest urban renewal plans for the area because of its promise of massive destruction of existingu buildings and massive dislocation of existing populations. Presently he finds his bitterest enemy in the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority for whom the best building that can be constructed in the city is one that generates the greatest increase in the tax base: twenty-story, high-income high-rises. At the same time he has been instrumental in championing the equally controversial Wellington - Harrington Plan, which would make federal monies available in the form of long-term, low-interest loans...
...Americans for Democratic Action, which had been one of the earliest and most enthusiastic backers of Senator Eugene McCarthy's bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination, endorsed Vice-President Humphrey Saturday as the "best candidate" for the Presidency...
...turn out temple and palace art, some of which has been preserved. The Cleveland show includes 15 bronze and wood statues, twelve silver vessels, jade and ivory carvings. Yet for all the emphasis on tradition the period was not stationary. Tremendous strides were made in developing porcelain. The earliest statues in this material date from the Yuan period; many bodhisattvas show the influence of Tantric Buddhism, the Mongol religion. Their faces have half-closed Nepalese eyes and small, sensual lips...
...Beach was not a matter of scoops-that is not his style. Trends are what interest him. He was one of the first to note the Republican Party's switch to a more pragmatic, less contentious brand of politics after the disaster of 1964. He was among the earliest to spot the decay of Lyndon Johnson's consensus politics and the virtual collapse of the Democratic National Committee. Rather than complain, as they might have in the case of other reporters, Democratic politicians privately thanked Broder for pointing out their delinquencies. "Seventy-five percent of covering the political...
...only testify that the song is a poetic evocation of a soaring mood and the electronic mesh of sound contributes powerfully to the spirit of the song. Townshend has done other wonderful things with his electronic control--on 'Out in the Street' one of the Who's earliest recordings there is a flickering gash of feedback that jars the listener into total awareness, on 'Call Me Lightning' there is a brief sputter of amplified plucking and then the sound switches into the full-fledged majestic whine of electric lead guitar and you get what it means to integrate Noise...