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...supposedly unfrozen funds will be slow to trickle down to the states and municipalities. That might be just as well for the nation. Most of the extra money would go to build highways -hardly the country's most pressing social need-and a spurt in highway construction would divert resources from the genuine need of private housing.Said one Administration staff economist: "I can't understand all the excitement about the construction bit. It's all really sort of a shell game...
...Dean May, having announced his presence over the bullhorn with the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, is speaking in soothing tones of liberal curriculum reform. If repression hasn't stifled discontent, will caption do the job? Will the promise of a little more novelty and fun in the curriculum divert attention from substantive issues and suppress just demands for fundamental reform...
What is concealed in the quote is an exaltation of food as a visual, tactile, plastic, colorful art form. However, because food is also so functional, its aesthetic qualities are often overlooked. Edibility, food's singular characteristic which tends to divert our attention from its artistic nature, is precisely the element which makes it a unique, almost complete, art form...
Consider the headaches a sports stadium causes: Local governments-always hard pressed for funds-must often divert money from other urgent needs to build a stadium for their professional football team. Many long-time residents of a city are uprooted from their homes to clear the site of the stadium; those who remain nearby are subjected to endless Sundays when cars line their streets bumper to bumper, and crowds of football fans heartlessly trample their carefully-tended lawns...
...unlikelihood of the state's actually taking over the Stadium does not make the bill pointless. At the least, it helps to divert Patriot fans' attention from the legislature's own record on the stadium issue. For years, bills to construct a new stadium for the team have come up in the legislature and for years, they have died there. Building a new stadium is an expensive proposition-from 830 to 850 million by various estimates-and virtually all of the proposals for a stadium admit that it cannot pay its own way. A deficit would have to be financed...