Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conventional-minded -- and especially the city bureaucrats who would lose control of resources--will point out a hundred problems. They will say the people of Roxbury, like children or underdeveloped countries, need to be brought along slowly to the point where they can help themselves. They will say that it is politically impossible...
...best example of the unconventional approach in action is in Columbus, Ohio. A humane and intelligent Lutheran minister, Rev. Leopold Bernhard, helped set up a "Neighborhood Corporation" in Columbus's ghetto with the help of Washington writer Milton Kotler. The Corporation is, in fact, little more than a simple legal line drawn around a neighborhood of 8,000 people. (Any good lawyer can set one up in a few hours--if a community so wishes...
...that truth, of course, also lies the secret to unlocking tremendous energies for a variety of cooperative community self-help efforts...
...Europe. Instead of attempting, from Washington, to decide how best to allocate Marshall Plan resources, the General told the Europeans to get together and come up with their own plans. In effect, he said, "Once you have come to conclusions about how best to proceed, we'll help you do it--but the decision is yours, not ours...
...BOSTON, were the Mayor able to summon the courage to abandon the conventional approach and hand resources over to community control, he might also solve his own administive headache. He too could say: 'You people decidewhat is best for your neighbourhood. We'll help -- but it cannot be our decision...