Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DETROIT LIKE most urban areas is a doughnut city. The white flight to the suburbs has produced metropolitan centers in which lily-white rings surround black cores. While the suburbs prosper, sucking off more and more of society's wealth, the inner city, predominantly black, is left to wallow in poverty. America is becoming, or has already become, what Disraeli termed "two nations," in our case one white and rich, the other black and poor, each unable to bridge the gap of polarization...
Even the elimination of the distinction between de facto and de jure segregation is not enough. In a society of increasing polarization and escalating inner hostility, the meaning of equal educational opportunity must change. The Warren Court's judgement, maintained to this day, that segregation leads to inferior education for blacks alone, is paternalistic; that black children can receive a proper education only when exposed to whites is unpalatable...
...FALL of 1967 was to be the last fall Kimberly Roth would spend in Troy. Autumn makes no mark on this new Detroit suburb. Trees have not had time enough to grow as have the elms of the inner city. And the air, sulphurous and choked as always, has brought blight to the few infant trees, imported and sculptured in thick rows between the yards of the condominiums to impart exclusiveness. They look siliconed, as do the laws which are sod carpets purchased ready-made and transplanted by unrolling...
...living everything but the new found religion of macrobiotics. She would, of course, located in the system what seemed a salve to her pain. For someone whose trips had turned into nightmares could not be threatened by a philosophy that placed the source of health, not in the inner self, but in "the absolute justice and infinite wisdom and Order of the Universe." Kimberly Rath, sold on this surefire system for spiritual peace, donned it like a straightjacket upon her life...
...watter. He broke them down in his reactor, and the tiny droplets of oil absorbed and encapsulated much tinier droplets of water. The emulsion burned so cleanly in his home furnace that, after months of testing, the fire had even oxidized away caked-on soot from the inner surfaces of the pipes. As a surprise bonus, says Cottell, the old furnace's fuel consumption fell...