Word: carless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quoting the "younger" (or in his terms, "their") generation, Blumenthal is even more carless. Tracy Chapman epitomizes our greedy decade with the line "If not now...when?" I'm hard-pressed to find a clearer example of quoting out of context. Hasn't Michael Blumenthal heard that Chapman, a folksinger, is "talkin 'bout a revolution...
...there still are amateur athletes, high on purity and protein and low on funds, like the splendidly mixed group just encountered. Carl Lewis, who drives a BMW he earned by running and jumping, is not an amateur by any sane definition, but Ann Turner, carless and couldn't-care-less, really is one. Whimsical market forces have replaced most of the snobbish old social exclusion. Lewis gets the BMW, and Turner walks to practice because track and field is more popular than kayaking...
...less-developed countries because they can pay two to three times more than the going local wage. They therefore attract the brightest workers, and that can determine the direction of economic development. Another prestige job in the Third World is that of bus driver. Reason: poor people in a carless society depend on them for transportation...
Nonetheless, in the America of the superhighway and the supermarket, the carless face redoubtable problems. Getting home from a party, for example. "You let people hear you calling a cab," says Herblock, "and they insist on giving you a ride. Then you have to wait while they have another drink. The only way out is to say, 'Sorry, the taxi's already...