In the attack, refugees reported indiscriminate shelling of their town, mass arrests and sniper fire.
There's no way I can keep still to the music of 'West Side Story.' " Before the "West Side Story" excerpts, which Ms. Thomas described as the concert's "dessert," children will hear selections from "On the Town, "Mass," "Fancy Free," "Candide" and the "Jeremiah" Symphony.
HTT's Hyperloop project seems to be turning more solid every day, but based on this most recent description of the project I can't help but be reminded of another small-town mass transit system.
But that did not mean the out-of-town masses came, and those who did show up complained about the steep fees they were charged.
A suspiciously level moss-encrusted boulder turned out to be the ruins of a sawmill dam -- a reminder that the iconic American trout pool, "a place for solitary contemplation... for a sense of reconnection with lost wilderness," was the starting point of "the most noisome and alienating developments of the American industrial revolution -- factory towns, foundries, mass production".
Industrialisation and changes to agriculture and society led to depopulation and clearances of the largely rural highlands, migration to the towns and mass immigration, where Scots made a major contribution to the development of countries including the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
A laboratory of sorts, she claims, and she is convincing.That young upstart across town lines, MASS MoCA in North Adams, began life as one of WMCA's most fruitful experiments.
That said, you can learn a few things about the city and its turbulent relationship with the automobile, especially if you're someone who, like me, normally gets around town by mass transit.
What struck me most the other morning, as someone who usually gets around town by mass transit, was how many cars on the Verrazano and on the Queensboro carried only the driver.
And what a scene: a rural idyll, five minutes before the train comes to town, and mass literacy, and industrialization.
