Word: ciceroism
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...Carter inflation fighter Alfred J. Kahn. MIT's Robert Solow, and Kennedy School hotshots Robert Reich and Daniel Yergin Throughout the text, the senator shows a wide ranging familiarity with Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, citing among others Winston Churchill, Leo Iolstoy, Jose Ortegay Gasset, Theodore Roszak, H.G. Wells and Cicero...
...Cicero can claim some recent ethnic diversification. About 5,000 Mexican Americans live on the shabby eastern edge of town, a sort of buffer with black west Chicago. Some 400 Asians live in Cicero as well. "Slant-eyed people may look funny," says a white Cicero truck driver, "but they work hard, stick to themselves, and keep their places clean...
...unhysterical. "We don't want them living here," a Western Electric worker says, "but I don't think we'd have shooting or anything like that." A Polish-American welder is similarly resigned: "I'll stand it as long as I can, and then leave Cicero if I have to. But I'm not gonna burn a cross or reach for my rifle We've come too far for that in this country." That is a slight but hopeful recognition in a town that has clearly not come far enough.-By Kurt Andersen. Reported...
...them, Cicero is snug, not bigoted They say that the prices of their brick bungalows will fall if a black family moves near by. "What people fear here is not skin color," says Real Estate Salesman Eugene Bielawa, "but devaluation of what they've worked all their lives fora nice home." Restaurateur Christos Rozos, who came from Greece in 1962 is wary of black Americans. "Why do they want to move here?" he wonders. "We've spent a lot of money to make this street beautiful...
...decade ago, Western Electric employed 22,000 people in Cicero. It remains the biggest employer today, even though its work force has dwindled to barely 4,000. Some 900 Western Electric employees are black, and about 4,000 other blacks work in Cicero. Whites seem to have reconciled themselves to the black commuters. "Let the colored come to work in Cicero," says a comparatively tolerant Western Electric worker. "That's fine. The dollar is democratic. But we'd just as soon they sleep elsewhere...