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Indeed, last week the executive committee of the Western Regional Drought Action Task Force, a 21-state organization formed to cope with mutual water problems, recommended that the group disband. Only California and Colorado will keep their drought task forces in operation...
...Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1949) are the novels for which she was best known, but Glendinning offers useful glosses on others as well. With varying success, Bowen constantly attacked a single problem: the effect of innocence on a world that was not ready to cope with it. "There is no doubt," she wrote in 1932, "that angels rush in before fools." She amplified this view on another occasion: "No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden...
...pressure grew, leftists insisted that the time had come for Communist participation in an emergency government. Ugo La Malfa, leader of the small Republican Party and a perennial Cassandra of Italian politics, argued that only full Communist "co-responsibility" could provide the consensus necessary to cope with the country's grave problems. Besides, he reasoned, if the Communists were to return to opposition, they would be in a position to exploit labor and student disaffection and perhaps win the next election...
...PROBLEMS of Brooklyn are the problems of all the older cities in this nation, all the northeastern industrial cities. Brooklyn's problems have come to a head sooner, and involve more people than those of other cities, so they're harder to cope with. Even if the borough, and New York City itself, had the most capable, honest and dedicated leaders, it would probably founder helpless before such massive social forces. And Brooklyn doesn't have such selfless and creative leadership: it is a machine city, and the Democratic organization hands out political plums for services rendered...
...York has a new mayor now, and he means well, but it remains to be seen if Uncle Ed can cope with the city's problems all by himself. The borough of Brooklyn can't be saved by people in Washington, or Albany, or even Manhattan; it has to save itself at the grass roots level, through community organizations and the spirit of self-help. That spark of life just doesn't seem to be present anymore...