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Plus, expansion hasn't been the cure-all that civic officials have hoped for. Toronto and Montreal both got teams through expansion, and Canada stands divided between its English and French speaking parks (though this can't be blamed entirely on any Blue Jay Expo rivalry, because they play in different leagues...
Leslie denied that Winters had been forced to leave the civic association. "Bob Winters was not kicked off our board," Leslie said. "It was sort of an amicable parting of the says...
...course this show isn't the end of civilization as we know it, but it's glum, preachy, sophomoric and aesthetically aimless. Indifferent to pleasure, it becomes college-level art for college-level thinking about civic virtue. Part of the trouble is that the Whitney, like a swimmer clutching a spar, still clings to the romantic avant-garde idea that visual artists get to sense things before anyone else, that they are uniquely equipped with social antennae that tell us what's wrong with the world before other folk can cotton on to it. Apart from a small number...
...Senators Sam Nunn and Barbara Mikulski -- are dead set against favoring college grads. "Skew it to those who've completed college," says Nunn, "and you've wiped out a major rationale for the plan, which is to get / kids of varied backgrounds to work together in a common civic experience. You also want to aid as many members of the college-age population as you can who want decent vocational training. Leave them behind and you pay later in welfare and other costs. And besides," Nunn notes, "most of the jobs that need filling, like helping the elderly in their...
...scratch any aggressive tribalism, or nationalism, you usually find beneath its surface a religious core, some older binding energy of belief or superstition, previous to civic consciousness, previous almost to thought. Here is the paradox of God-love as a life-force, the deepest well of compassion, that is capable of transforming itself into a death-force, with the peculiar annihilating energies of belief. Faith, the sweetest refuge and consolation, may harden, by perverse miracle, into a sword -- or anyway into a club or a torch or an assault rifle. Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute. The mystery...