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Toughest Talks. Much will depend on the civic-mindedness of the membership of the unions, which are eventually expected to ratify the agreement, however grudgingly. In the case of the police and firemen, the city may have to add some sweeteners to break down their resistance. Gotbaum, who describes the negotiations as the toughest he has ever witnessed, declared: "The workers are identifying with the city." Banker Rohatyn left the sessions with heightened respect for the men who sat across the table from him and only rarely pounded on it. "What impressed me most about those guys," he said...
...Henry Gibson's Haven Hamilton could be vain, phony and tyrannical, a civic leader and country star apparently treating like children the audience that fed his ego. Until he stands on the stage of the Parthenon oblivious to his wounded arm, thinking of the audience before himself. "This isn't Dallas, this is Nashville. Let's show 'em what we're made of!" If one's inclined to make value judgements about specific moments here, the gesture is either redeeming or it is not. But Altman and Gibson developed the character in a less good guy/bad...
...event at which the Trick failed to negotiate properly a yo-yo he had been given by the citizenry. Anyway, things have pretty much moved out of the city except for the business district--tall buildings where everything is sheathed in structural steel. Even with all the civic pride that obviously went into these structures and the malls around them, they are a little ghostly, especially at night. The outskirts are where the action is, but it's spread out along a wheel of strips--the road to Chattanooga, to Memphis, to Atlanta and Louisville--all crammed with steak houses...
...pointed out, the founders' basic idea was that the pursuit of every man's self-interest was the most reliable motivation on which to build a political system, provided it was "rightly understood" and curbed by political checks and balances. The concept also required a measure of "civic virtue" or "republican morality," which meant a willingness to suspend the pursuit of immediate self-interest to act for the common good. This may always have been more of an ideal than a fact. But today, more than ever, we see growing numbers of individuals and groups simply fighting...
Open Doubts. For centuries now, Holy Years have come every 25 years, except for 1800 and 1850, when political problems interfered. Still, it was no automatic decision to proclaim one for 1975. There were questions of the Pope's health and the civic and ecological strains a Holy Year might place on the swollen and strike-plagued city of Rome. Moreover, a low turnout would proclaim Catholic indifference. Two years ago, Paul spoke openly of his doubts. "We have asked ourselves if such a tradition should be continued in our times," he said, because of all the changes since...