Word: metropolises
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The founders foresaw and feared-but did not have to cope with-metropolis, the breeder of anonymity and anomie (the lack of purpose and values). They had the urgency that comes with vivid and widely shared causes. Military enemies first pushed them together and then, in order to "form a...
As New Yorkers reflect on the reluctance of other Americans to rush to their rescue (see story page 8), they are sometimes tempted to imagine that they are victims of the outlander's hatred for the sophisticated metropolis. As Queens College Professor Andrew Hacker put it last week, "By...
But the everyone-out-there-hates-us theory is not warranted. Although there is general agreement that New York has been mismanaged in recent years, there is also a countervailing compassion for the inhabitants of the tottering city. Even Boston's Mayor White relented sufficiently to say not long...
President Gerald Ford may have made friends in Eastern Europe on his way home from the Helsinki Summit last week, but he made few in New York City. Speaking to the good Communist burghers of the Belgrade city assembly, Ford said of his own largest metropolis, "They don't...
Moving East. Actually, coyotes are on the march almost everywhere. Once concentrated almost entirely in the West, they have begun to turn up as far east as Maine, where they are replacing the larger but less intelligent wolf as a wildlife predator. On the Great Plains, coyotes are now so...