Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which has already begun. By 1975 the program should have altered 25 per cent of the city's 31 square miles and have affected 50 per cent of its 700,000 population. The plan's comprehensive scope, its thoughtfulness, and its bold promises of progress are all calculated to impress. But the intent seems wrong. The spirit behind it appears more concerned with maximizing business opportunity than with creating a humane, liveable city for the poor as well as the rich...
...answer was no, he would not. Bundy, who can chill a polar bear with his codfish-cold scorn, replied that his schedule was crowded; besides, he could hardly accept "an invitation given on ten days' notice." There were, however, a few points he wanted to impress on the scholars. Wrote he, in his icy reply...
Part of Vellucci's influence derives from the wide range of people he has met and has been able to impress. And Vellucci does impress them. At City Council hearings, though his question periods are long and often boring, he has obviously done his homework, sometimes better than the people he questions. In a group, he is immediately able to sense what the group wants to hear from him, and to adapt himself accordingly...
...completely oblivious to what should seem rather obvious to everyone: that if there were any class of individuals who would not be taken too seriously, it would be a crowd of fifteen thousand adolescent and only slightly post-adolescent, relatively uninformed (relative to those whom they were trying to impress) college students on a Saturday afternoon. If they all looked as scrubby as the bunch from Harvard in the picture, I would venture that the whole demonstration has hurt, rather than helped, their cause. Their altruistic motives are admirable, but I distrust their ulterior ones. The more objectionable members...
...centuries, it was decided, and there is no bare white plaster anywhere in the galleries. Instead, moderns hang against natural-colored monk's cloth, and old masters are shown against lustrous shades of velvet. Despite elegant walls, Brown and his staff of nine curators have chosen not to impress by clutter: a small but prize array of impressionists and postimpressionists, including a magnificent Cézanne still life that seems to tilt a plate of cherries into the viewer's mouth, is brought together to demonstrate one of the museum's strengths. Great Renaissance paintings, still...