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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daniel Bell, a city is "syncretistic" and New York is an exemplary "palimpsest." Shadows of that city's three historic "faces" remain part of its character: the 19th century port city; the "nervously swift" manufacturer at the turn of the century; and the settling place for "glass house" corporations in the 1950's. And with the mushrooming of the "culture hungry" class, Bell sees the "face" of the '60's and '70's forming: New York as the cultural city...
...Bell, like Edward Banfield in the article following his, has picked out the problem of the city. The traditional tug-of-war between city and country has been settled for good, and the central question now is "the organization of life within the city itself." Bell's evaluation is concise: the social costs with which New York has paid for each of its new "faces" can only be minimized by central planning. But, as in most cities, master-planning in New York has been a flop, and decisions are still made by "a calculus of individual economic costs." Bell...
...contrast to Bell's imperative for regional planning, Banfield's only hope is that extra-political forces--the rising national income, and the growing stock of handme-down housing--will stop the spreading pathological culture. Banfield's conclusion has its own fatalistic ring: Whatever happens "there will always be a "bottom fifth...
Partriotic Harvard undergraduates, dedicated to the encouragement of creeping mergerism through interhouse dining, are presenting themselves at Radcliffe bell-desks and volunteering to eat enough meals to keep the system going...
Other groups, known in bell-desk circles as "cruisers," go from dorm to form, checking the tag-board for girls who might be willing to invite them to dinner...