Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evaporated. Yet perhaps it was, as the militants now say, a false idealism based on the notion that whites could lift blacks with well-meaning, but destructive paternalism. That idea, at least, is now dead, and a new kind of dialogue is developing in which whites help, but do not command the black advance...
...convince Negroes, who distrust him, that he is getting results for them. He must convince middle-class whites that black progress is in their interest, because it will benefit society as a whole. He must convince Negroes that a measure of patience is in their interest, because it will help enlist necessary white support. He must accomplish this almost impossibly difficult task while dealing with institutions whose nature it is to resist change. John W. Gardner believes that the U.S. must find a way to make society (and institutions) "capable of continuous change, continuous renewal and continuous responsiveness." This...
...notion that all public assistance is a coddling waste; it does not mean that in the present context. What is at stake now is the freeing of the individual from unnecessary dependence on a remote bureaucratic apparatus or the liberation of local communities from the notion that they cannot help themselves. The Government can dramatize the issues, provide the example, and spend its money in new ways that release private energies on a far greater scale. Ideally, it could also set a new standard for federal officials' performance. Promotion and pay raises might well go mainly to officials who liquidate...
...dimension, focusing on the chase and the capture. They tend to ignore the courts, the prisons and the conditions that cause crime. The Federal Government can probably do less about crime than it is often assumed. But with relatively modest expenditures?or no expenditures at all?the Government can help merely by re-examining the problems. Almost all authorities on crime agree, for example, that many social infractions now classed as crimes?drunkenness, drug addiction and homosexual relations between consenting adults?are not matters for the police or the criminal law. The problems are real enough, but should be dealt...
...more. It should vigorously enforce and fully fund existing antipollution laws. If they prove insufficient, it ought to ask Congress for even tougher measures. It must also act swiftly to preserve scenic areas, waterfronts and unspoiled islands. Fortunately, the country still has many deserving areas. It might also help local governments fund more parks near cities, and if they still cannot afford the land, the Government might step in with suburban national parks...