Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worse than this, however, are a few dubious conclusions about American politics. Spender marvels at the communication that Americans enjoy with even the highest figures in government...
...them and their wives during nearly 30 years of practice. "They are self-serving egomaniacs, and I take off my hat to their wives. I don't know how the husbands get away with it." He believes that no more than 3% or 4% of political wives genuinely enjoy what they are doing. "There's a lot of resentment under the surface. They always start out with 'my dear, darling husband' and how much he's doing for Cayuga County or wherever the hell he comes from. But if you listen long enough, you find...
...bring racial justice to Boston, any more than integrating Montgomery's bus lines brought racial justice to Alabama. In a society where black and white people were truly equal, no one would need to consider busing, because housing would be integrated or people from all neighborhoods would enjoy the same rights. But that is not the kind of society we have now. The issue now is not integrated housing--an obvious goal, though one difficult to achieve without deep change in the structure of American government or society. The issue right now isn't even extending integration to suburban school...
...impose a new sensibility on white people in America's least developed section. And it includes suburban liberals willing to fight for integration to the last South Bostoner. Partly the pattern depends upon the special importance some people with little access to real power attach to those advantages they enjoy. Partly it grows from the unwillingness of people with more real power to sacrifice some of it, however they may compromise, when it comes to their working-class cohorts...
September 1974 was a month that very few could enjoy. It was squalid--full of craziness without class. As worthless a month, in fact, as any in recent memory. The evidence...