Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Area Rapid Transit project itself can hardly suffer from the publication of your cover article, but your readers can -if they are inefficiently informed...
...marvel is that a project of this magnitude could be accomplished at all by a metropolitan region of so many communities and separate governmental entities. Yet our transit cars are now in production, and we are due to start initial passenger service next year. The entire transit system will be completed in mid-1972, only a year behind the original schedule...
...five-year-old project is a monument to what hucksterism and tax-deductible fund raising can create in the way of illusions. It was conceived, promoted and almost executed by Henry O. Dormann, 38, who has said that he is a millionaire and whose closest association with scholarship is a book, A Millionaire's Guide to Europe (sample advice: "Hire yourself a private railway train"). The editor-owner of Servicio de Information Pan Americana, an obscure public relations service, and an operator in real estate and advertising, Dormann set up the library in 1965 for the grand purpose...
...alarmed at his lack of expertise. A leading Lincoln scholar, Ralph Newman, who is a consultant to the Library of Congress, intervened at a time when the Johnson Administration was considering cooperating with Dormann. Newman warned the White House that Dormann "knew nothing whatsoever about the nature of the project he was attempting," and seemed to be using "our greatest office and name as a public relations device." As word of Newman's advice spread, Dormann discovered that neither Government officials nor university scholars would help him collect papers...
...Hume Cronyn, just as Alex McGowan's tour de force "made" the show in London and on Broadway. Cronyn is superb, biting off bittersweet epithets, swivelling quickly, daintily crossing his legs on the Papal throne, as a long cigarette dangles from his fingers. Cronyn's determined effort to project nuance into Rolfe's fantasies generate an ironic tension. He makes Rolfe more interesting than the play might lead us to believe...