Word: reservoir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While worrying about the plight of the ghetto, Lindsay also gives some hope to the city's despairing -and departing -middle class and its huge reservoir of talent. His interest and participation in cultural activities and his just plain hijinks -capering on the Manhattan Bridge with a film crew to encourage motion-picture production in the city or playing touch football in Central Park -are reviving the city's ability to enjoy itself. If his energy and courage hold out, Lindsay may just manage to make New York City more livable as well as more governable...
...Uffizi Gallery's basement, where art and records were kept in storage, is still a vile reservoir. Those of the ancient synagogue's 12th century scrolls that survived the Nazis are gone. The expert who arrived from Rome took a good look at the remains and dropped dead of a heart attack...
...colleges have sprung up throughout the state. Faced with the difficulty of handling thousands of incoming residents, Brown has built the nation's largest toll-free highway system. He has kept the Southern California economic boom from coming to a rasping, bone-dry halt by forcing construction of a reservoir and water-pipe system rivalling the Tennessee Valley Authority in size and expense...
...carry the "effluents," as the processed waste is called, over the mountains and out of the Tahoe Basin completely. Pollution control will cost $40 million; but besides keeping Tahoe true blue, it will also provide much needed irrigation for Nevada's desert lands and create a new federal reservoir in California's Alpine County...
...almost the same time Galbraith spoke, Walter Lippman '10 was making some of the same points in a speech in California. Modern man, he said, has been emancipated from traditional authority and is now looking for some reservoir of wisdom and truth from which he can draw. Lippman suggested that the universities will ultimately take on this role, even in areas of public policy...