Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thousands whom private industry cannot possibly take, however, the Government should offer refuge as "the employer of last resort," a concept long espoused by Nixon's urban adviser, Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Many thousands could be usefully employed as, among other things, teacher aides and police auxiliaries. Wages could run about $4,000 a year, with another $1,000 for training. Though it is impossible to say how many people would want or need this program, the Government could at least test the response this year by offering 150,000 jobs. Cost: $750 million, a part of which would be offset...
...expected in the next generation, the Government could encourage the development of at least 100 entirely new towns, varying in population from 100,000 to 500,000. Great Britain has built 24 new towns since World War II, and private developers in the U.S. are already experimenting with the concept. Barriers to private development are enormous, however, and the Government might take the initiative with a New Towns Act and a New Towns Administration within the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...slums are not the only thing wrong with U.S. cities, and the urban crisis can never be solved until Americans change their concept of the city itself. Central to any change is control of the automobile. With the Federal Highway Act, which offers 90% federal funding for expressways, the Government destroyed any possible balance between cars and other forms of transportation, such as subways and monorails. Though subways might be more efficient, cities have in effect been offered expressways virtually free. The lure has usually proved irresistible, and as a result cities?not to mention the countryside?have been torn...
...half share, with Berryman, of the 1969 Bollingen Prize. But his latest book of verse demonstrates that the toughness is gone and the vision is blurred when it comes to love. In this cycle of 29 love poems, adolescent maundering most often conquers whatever maturity of poetic line or concept should be expected...
...have read this brief selection as background for the rest of my discussion of the Deaf Dumb and Blind Boy concept. As far as I can tell, with a few rare exceptions, it is the scientist who usually explores different points of view, seeking some sort of objectivity. It seems that one of the most revealing ways of exploring one-self is to examine the limits and variances in perception. It is such an inquiry into ourselves that is at the roots of Deaf Dumb and Blind Boy. Suppose a person has none of the normal mechanisms of perception...