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...case the three leading Democratic presidential candidates were talking about dealt with an explosive political question: whether the Federal Government should sponsor large-scale housing for low-income groups, which could break up what Carter described, in a moment of uncustomary carelessness, as the "ethnic purity" of neighborhoods. By a vote of 8 to 0, the Supreme Court agreed that a U.S. district court could direct the Federal Government to do just that-but only under carefully prescribed conditions. Those conditions, in fact, made it certain that the suburbs were in no immediate danger of being invaded by large-scale...
...Radical" in fact simply means being concerned about ecology, day care systems, more public transit and all of the other issues of reform that should've been dealt with five years ago. Ideology, according to Burlingham is no longer as important as a "shift from a politics of protest to a creative--and increasingly effective--brand of positive action...
Traditional prep school lacrosse powerhouse Phillips Academy (a.k.a. Andover) simply proved too much for the freshman lax squad yesterday, as they dealt the frosh their fourth loss in five games...
America in the 1960s and 1970s has found it harder to respond to crime than America in the 1830s. Earlier, we dealt with the problem by creating new institutions-the police, the prison, the asylum, corporations, the mass political party, local self-government-through which to control dangerous impulses and channel constructive ones. Today there are virtually no institutions left to invent: crime increases in spite of police, prisons, and public and private government. For a long time, and to our great disadvantage, we clung to the myth that there was a bureaucratic or governmental alternative to familial and communal...
...Hispanic women put together a translation of Our Bodies for the Spanish community. Since many of their experiences and problems are very different from those of a white middle class American, the collective wants to reach them, those experiences have to be incorporated into the Spanish version and dealt with. The same kind of problem came up in the Japanese translation, although Berger says less was done to alter it--the chapter on being gay was simply removed to avoid offending anyone. The only thing the Boston Women's Health Collective holds on to in the foreign publications...