Word: magnetically
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...Book of Common Prayer is a majestic mainstay of the Anglican faith. It is, as G.K. Chesterton observed, "the masterpiece of Protestantism, the one magnet and talisman for people even outside the Anglican Church, as are the great Gothic cathedrals for people outside the Catholic Church." The Prayer Book has remained essentially unchanged for 300 years. Should it now be modernized...
...turn believe that much of their trouble has been imposed on them by the country, through welfare legislation and Great Society programs that the city could not control. In addition to suffering the ailments of all big, old U.S. cities, New York has many special problems: it is a magnet for poor immigrants and rural people; it has an unusually large number of unemployed or otherwise dependent citizens and tax-exempt institutions; it also has huge numbers of commuters-many from neighboring states-who do not carry a full tax load...
Unlike Boston's regular schools, which are still predominantly white or black, the magnet schools will have a racial quota, reflecting the city's total enrollment: 52% white, 36% black, 12% other minorities. Only about 25% of these students will live in the district of the magnet school...
...Garrity's plan for magnet schools has eased some opposition to busing, although many teachers doubt that enough time remains to recruit students or adopt special programs. John Doherty, former president of the Boston Teachers Union, supports magnets but fears that "the magnetism won't be sufficient in September to bring kids into the magnet schools. They will [then] be assigned on an involuntary basis, and having a large portion of kids assigned to what are supposed to be magnet schools is a contradiction in terms." Boston still has fierce advocates of purely neighborhood schools. Says Elvira ("Pixie...
...Near West Side of Chicago, meanwhile, the $30 million Whitney M. Young Jr. High School will open as a magnet in the fall with-among other things-an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a special center for the performing arts and a separate curriculum for medical studies. Whitney Young also has a strict admissions quota: 40% white, 40% black, 10% Latin, 5% other minorities and 5% at the discretion of the principal. Says Assistant School Superintendent Joseph Hannon: "It's supposed to be a laboratory of the city...