Word: chosen
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Alan Lupo's Liberty's Chosen Home, a landmark study of the crisis precipitated three years ago by Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.'s decision to implement integration by busing, attempts to deal with those questions and criticisms. Lupo, an experienced Boston-bred journalist with a keen eye for detail, does not present the reader with a completely seminal work. He repeats and amplifies some of the observations Harvard's Robert Coles and the lesser-known teacher and author Kim Marshall have made about Boston's problems with busing. On balance the value of his book is that it backs...
...perception on the part of liberals that unfounded white racism prevented a smooth desegregation process, Liberty's Chosen Home rejects that explanation as simplistic; the deeper, and more endemic problem is wrapped up in class differences and American attitudes toward the city. It was class, as well as race, that made busing such an explosive issue: working class whites resented being the subjects in some grand social experiment designed and supported by middle-class suburbanities. Lupo condemns the arrogance and inflexibility of a system that shows little regard for the concept of neighborhood and consciously mixes the poor South Boston...
...inherent interest; they see their education as a dabbling in the liberal arts, rather than as Preparation for a career. And when they leave, Trilling argues, Radcliffe's graduates are far less qualified to seek jobs than their male counterparts, who, impelled by their class imperatives, have chosen courses with an eye to the future...
...margins of position papers. For the past two weeks, he has been summoning groups of union leaders, oilmen, builders and other constituencies that are likely to be affected to a series of 21 White House miniconferences on energy. For the last, at week's end, 19 ordinary citizens, chosen at random from around the country-including two students, a housewife and a cattle rancher-huddled in the Executive Office Building with Administration energy experts...
...relentless japery is almost sufficient to drown out some bleak thoughts on the state of the urban world. Seen through Wren's eyes, New York City is a ruin in which civility and beauty are relentlessly stamped out. "I suspected that the entire block," he notes, "chosen because it was handsome, had been condemned for demolition and cleared of tenants." Noting that automated garages are replacing the older type, thus putting "churlish" attendants out of work, Wren comments: "One more bit of the inhumane is replaced by the non-human." The author strikes this mordant note often enough...