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...what is probably the most highly urbanized nation the world has ever known, the foundations of a better life must be laid by and within the very cities that are seemingly faced with an infinitude of utterly insoluble problems. That these problems are both finite and soluble was implicit last week in the diverse yet apposite experiences of four of the greatest cities...
...forever changed: "The élan of their lives, revolutionary faith in the future, was missing. History was now a tangle of meanings, without clear-cut issue. What would never come back, in this most political of ages, was the faith in a wholly new society that had been implicit in the revolutionary ideal...
...Negro has been patience−until at length the Negro was able to point out that he had been patient for one full century. The same counsel now has a more concrete content: patience, to let the new laws work, to let elections bring about the change implicit in all the stress on voting rights, to let the courts strike at anyone who discriminates in housing or jobs. This political weapon already feels good in the hands of many Negroes: those who form an effective voting bloc in Tennessee, those who have for the first time elected state legislators...
...Lasch is not knocking his subjects for their naive assessment of human nature, although this charge is implicit in any discussion of Dewey and Deweyites. He raps them on a more basic matter: for their incomplete participation in the revolution in standards and for developing a brand of moral relativism that was constitutionally incapable of taking a stand against the encroachments of power. "The new radicals were torn between their wish to liberate the unused energies of the submerged portions of society and their enthusiasm for social planning, which led in practice to new and subtler forms of repression...
...used to avoid the problem. "Where human feelings are part of the evidence, they cannot be ignored," he explains in Dark Ghetto, continuing, "Where anger is the appropriate response, to avoid the feeling itself . . . is to set boundaries on the truth itself." Clark has, since 1954, a powerful, if implicit, supporter for his argument--the Supreme Court, which accepted his psychological appendix to the brief, in Brown v. Board of Education...