Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew the injunction would probably be dissolved since the big trees it was supposed to save were already gone, but I didn't care- it made me feel good just to be building something where somebody else had been destroying. Besides, there's still one nice stretch of the creek left, and maybe after all the uproar they'll be afraid to destroy it with any future projects. At least they're going to leave the creek and not cement...
...regular January meeting. Brooks said last night that he was "somewhat disturbed at the way the Project was held over" by the Faculty: both he and Herrnstein referred to the Harvard people who have refrained from participating in the Project since its beginning last June as "good soldiers...
...seen a play, let alone reviewed one. You just have to be able to do your thing well. Many members of the University community read Crimson editorials (notice we didn't say they agreed with them), and they do have an impact on the real world. You have a good chance of persuading a majority to support you but all is not lost if you don't. You can always write an "On the Other Hand" editorial stating your own position, no matter how deviant (miscreant...
...some key conservative doctrines: the need for economic incentives, the reduction of federalism, and the return to local initiative. He scored the old welfare program for breaking up families. He stands opposed with many Republicans to the provision of services through the federal government. The government, he holds, is good at collecting revenues but bad at distributing services. Direct cash payments to the poor are more effective than what he calls "the monopoly strategy of services," because the government rarely provides what the poor really need. Since Republicans also prefer the income strategy to the services strategy, Moynihan has fitted...
Instead of suburb in cooperation coercion might be the eventual answer. While allowing the suburbs their symbolic independence, the county governments could initiate a metropolitan-wide tax base for "public goods" which benefit the whole area. Such public goods include transportation, police protection, and air pollution. The exception to these is education. Here one must accept community control as political reality. In the central city, however, federal funds should increase substantially to put the quality of urban schooling on roughly equal footing with suburban. Political control over these funds, however, is lost for good and must be accepted...