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...highlights of the area was a trip to the much-ballyhooed Harvard campus and Cambridge. Were we in for a shock! The campus was seedy, dirty and an overall state of decay. Even more of a shock was the city of Cambridge. The dirt and filth in the streets was comparable to that of the most run-down slum in New York...most store windows looked as they hadn't been washed in years and the restaurants and stores had an overall seedy look. I am sorry to say that we were unable to come up with any reasonable defense...
Nonetheless, those convinced that senescence is a legitimate excuse for the decay of rock talent should listen to Who Are You and think again. The most inspired, exciting album in a long while comes to you not from the latest New Wave band to slouch out of CBGBs, but from the nearly middle-aged group that sang "My Generation" 14 years...
...gives a tinker's damn about the Democratic Party in Massachusetts? There's been a decay of this private section business of party politics, of individuals acting as private people--cause groups, political parties, NAACP, and so on--the public sector has taken over and so have the technocrats, the bureacracies, and what I like to call the topocrats...
...course, that the book is perfect. Halberstam has set his story in the presidential year 1988, a time of serious decay in America. The fuel shortage has dropped the United States into the second division of world powers, border wars are flaring among the states, and "radical youth" has swung to the right to begin a guerilla war against the blacks who, having attained the nervous prosperity of the middle class, have taken over the military and the FBI. It's all in good fun, really--although Halberstam's vision of America has an underlying serious tone, his tongue seems...
Some Chicagoans criticized the program, arguing that the city has been losing its middle class mainly because of crime and poor schools, not high housing costs. Bankers also fret about possible disruptive effects on the regular mortgage market. Still, the experiment has appeal in an age of spreading downtown decay and rising taxpayer unrest. Two Colorado cities, Denver and Pueblo, plan similar programs to start in a few weeks...