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...Review Board, Chamberlain discovered that the town's "good-ole-buddy network" of businessmen and politicians isn't always grateful for fresh perspectives. Teaming up with a preservationist group led by two other outsiders--John Baskin, 56, a ruminative writer from South Carolina, and former Bostonian Hawley, whose Orange Frazer Press specializes in books about Ohio--Chamberlain became involved in a crusade to create a downtown shopping-and-entertainment zone. Mayor Eveland and the city council liked the idea, but never came up with a way to finance it. The activists also tried to persuade Eveland to join an innovative...
...William Frazer, financial director of the Human services department, which spent $3,000 on travel and training, said his department also limited its travel last year...
...Usually what happens is that there may be one or two trips to areas other than Greater Boston," Frazer said, "There was one trip to California and at least one to either Dallas to Denver." Expense Cost City Manager 5,000 Legal Department 3,000 Finance (Administration, Budget, Purchasing) 8,550 Public Celebration 125 Fire 1,500 Traffic 2,150 Inspectional 750 Electrical 600 Water 10,000 Historical Commission 550 Human Services Commission 3,000 Veterans 400 Hospital 64,000 Total...
...which it is true. Viet Nam may have been a hallucination. It was surely a warning, though one not always easy to read. It was also a kind of national rite of passage, a great power learning Kipling's lesson the hard way. In The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazer describes how a tribesman chosen to be king must be enchained and thrashed before his coronation. The moral may be that a nation, like a king, needs a little chastening perspective...
...Universities and the Scientific Revolution and Sir WiLliam Cecil Dampier's History of Science. And the Bible. And Fowler's Modern English Usage. Also Spengler's Decline of the West, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams and Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres and Frazer's Golden Bough. And George Meredith's works, especially his Essay on Comedy. And H.G. Wells' Time Machine and The Outline of History and any good history of the U.S. And Cardinal