Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...articles (one by federal housing official Robert Weaver) deal with New Towns, i.e. autonomous suburban communities planned and created in one stroke. Their main point of agreement is an insistence that lower-income housing be included. Both articles point out a trend toward upper-income New Towns; but as graduate student David Dasch observes, no town can exist without garbage men. Two basic assumptions in the design of New Towns seem to be that green expanses should be maximized, and ranch houses eliminated...
What we had to do was put the present Vietnam logjam into the context of the main problem of U.S. Asian policy, the failure to deal effectively with China...
Islands in the Main. The unhappy exception to the expanding national experience, says Author Boorstin, was the South. Its cities were not intellectual and cultural centers. Its planter-family leadership was generally rural and withdrawn. Its economy was agrarian and tied increasingly to a single crop. Its immigrants (the Negroes) were never assimilated, but were held apart in an arbitrary and bifurcated social structure. Its legal system depended on a punctilious, vague, and largely unwritten code of honor. And its preachments on the state's right of secession nourished a colonial mentality in the South long after the rest...
...fact, during the early years of the 19th century, despite formal political ties and intermittent economic relations, the North, the South and the West were almost completely separated regions. They floated, says Boorstin, like "fuzzy islands" in the continental main. But far beneath the surface of events, forces were working to bring them together, and in the second half of his book, Boorstin traces the sluggish growth of the American identity...
...School's work, for they represent; ideals which we have, unfortunately, hardly realized fully in practice. We believe, moreover, that the attempt to provide advanced scholarship, training, and professional leadership of the first importance in the future orientation of the School, and requires a reevaluation of its main priorities...