Word: civics
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...expected to take one look at the enterprise and run in the opposite direction. Right? Wrong. The money-losing operation happens to involve big-time sport, and the locale happens to be Cleveland, where an athletic franchise is almost guaranteed to bring out the small boy and large civic booster hidden in many businessmen...
...civic group began its fund drive and distinguished academics threw up their hands as opposition to the proposed site of the Kennedy library became more and more explicit this week...
...paper's civic pride can occasionally be cloying. It goes into annual paroxysms of praise over such events as the state fair and the Fourth of July circus wagon parade (sample lead: "The parade wasn't long and the route was short, but the enthusiasm . . . ). Although it does send reporters and editorial writers on international fact-finding tours, the paper's thrust is unabashedly local...
...days gone by, mem bers of the tightly organized Atlanta power structure and their families and friends could comfortably accommodate themselves in the 200-seat aldermanic chamber. This week more than 6,000 people from all parts of the city were due to fill the 4,600-seat Civic Center auditorium and adjacent rooms to see Jackson, white City Council President Wyche Fowler and 18 city councilmen (nine white, nine black) sworn...
...hardened reader is privy by now to journalism's dark secret, which is that news is the extraordinary, not the ordinary. Even so, in 1973 one all-purpose phrase was often heard, as useful to malefactors justifying their ac tions as it was to cynics excusing their civic indifference. It is that They All Do It. But do they...