Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philadelphia's tough-talking Democratic mayor, Frank Rizzo, has long been as hard on syntax as he is on the "vermin" he blames for his city's problems with crime and decline. During his campaign for a second four-year term in 1975, for instance, the blustery former police chief offered Philadelphians a typically unpunctuated promise: "Just wait after November you'll have a front row seat because I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a faggot...
...Crime The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe...
...villain. Well, it seems almost equitable that everyone else in the University has gotten exposed to this man and his methods, because we at the Quad are only too familiar with John Fox. He took the Quad. which was once a strong and supportive community whose sole crime was its not being, and not wanting to be, Harvard, and put the final touches on its dismemberment. It is a shame that it is gone. (Trevor Potter's pathetic defense of the Fox Plan in the Independent, 10/6/77, notwithstanding.) It is most encouraging now to see that everyone else agrees with...
Preserving the cities, then, must involve efforts to deal with the manifestations of social problems--housing and crime for instance--as well as with the social concerns themselves. The form this has taken in recent years is the Community Development (CD) program, a plan providing localities with block grants and the leeway to spend them as they...
...question is not one of timing or foot-dragging. It is one of an impression of overall responsiveness--of whether there will actually some day be a comprehensive, well-thought-out framework for proposals on low-income housing construction (preferably low-level), public transportation, municipal bond underwriting, redlining, crime-fighting, etc. Carter's "let's work with what we have" attitude, combined with his reuqirement for rebuilding the cities--that it not come at the expense of a balanced budget and strong defense--does not bode well for those issues or the future of the nation's cities in general...