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...states and cities, indissolubly wedded to the Great Society, have discovered to their chagrin that most of its distributive mechanisms-its knees and elbows-are glued together by a welter of rigid and overlapping legislation...
Freedom to Destroy. The Bolsheviks at first tried to provide a façade of popular approval for their takeover. Certain that they would triumph, they permitted Kerensky's elections for a Constituent Assembly to be held. To their chagrin, they got only 175 seats out of 707. The delegates* had met for only 17 hours when Lenin ordered his soldiers to disband the Assembly forever. What Kerensky and the provisional governments' other well-meaning democrats had accomplished in eight months was little more than to provide Lenin with sufficient freedom to destroy them. Kerensky himself went into...
...what he calls the '?Q.N." (for Qualified Negro) problem in the early '60s. After opening hundreds of jobs through a quiet, three-year consumers' boycott (in Sullivan's euphemism, a "selective-buying campaign") that never used a picket or a marcher, he discovered to his chagrin that he could not find enough skilled Negroes to fill the jobs. Realizing that "integration without preparation is frustration"-now one of his favorite slogans-he decided to set up his own training program, and with other Negro ministers, established the Opportunities Industrialization Center (O.I.C.) in an abandoned North Philadelphia...
Bureaucratic inertia and sensitivity to criticism have so far been more troublesome than political entanglements. The Center has contracted to evaluate several urban programs run by government agencies and non-profit groups. To their chagrin, the Center's researchers are finding, as one put it, that "while academics may thrive on criticism, bureaucrats don't." When one of the Center's reports criticized a Roxbury agency for not reaching the low-income population that it was supposed to serve, the agency and the Federal officials who were financing it immediately denounced the Joint Center...
...treaty will, to the chagrin of many minds immobilized by the demonology of the fifties, expedite cooperation with a nation assisting the North Vietnamese. But cooperation at this juncture is something to be encouraged, for the United States should not allow the whole range of its foreign policy to be darkened by the spectre of Vietnam...