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The age of democratic parties which called on the people to decide the issues on the people to decide the issues and encouraged their participation and community-sense had fallen to the level of technological parties. The modern party, caught in the industrial states, uses the technology of television. The...
The Jews not only lived in the ghetto, but were its landlords and shopkeepers; whatever their background, landlords and shopkeepers will often be guilty of rent gouging, overpricing and selling shoddy merchandise. In his now-classic study of Chicago's Negro ghetto, Black Metropolis, Sociologist St. Clair Drake points out...
IN Central Park the leaves turned brown and gold in the tangy weather that makes lyricists write of "autumn in New York." On Fifth Avenue an unending parade of shoppers canvassed the world's most elegant bazaar. The Broadway marquees touted yet another hectic season. From the Battery to...
Many New Yorkers shared that somber view. The city's plight, of course, was not one of physical survival-though some cynics argued that New York's complex ills could only be cured if the metropolis were razed and rebuilt. Its breakdown this fall was one of spirit...
The question that is always asked about New York can be asked about any other metropolis in the U.S. today: Is it governable? Under its present antique structure, the answer is quickly becoming obvious: it is not.