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...going to shake hands with you," said the Milton Mother in the purply-red suit. "You've turned our community upside down. I'm not going to shake hands with you." Edward J. McLaughlin, the general counsel for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, was embarrassed. An Irish blush washed his face, lapping the edges of his gray temples...
...kind man. The MBTA, after all, tries very hard to be kind. "Look," said McLaughlin to the Milton Mother, "why don't you and your friends come on over to our office sometime and we'll talk this over? Okay? Come on now, let's shake hands." But the Milton Mother would not shake hands. And all the people in the corridor outside the Transportation Committee Room were watching, and Big Ed McLaughlin--who had spent nearly ten years here on the Hill as Dorchester's Representative, defending people like the Milton Mother--was very, very embarrassed...
...which have since become standards and filled out the rest of Carmen with tedium and theft. The Second Act quintet is bad imitation Mozart, the Third Act trio bad imitation Rossini, and Micaela's Air good imitation Meverbeer, which is just as bad. Carmen proves Bizet to be the Milton Berle of music...
...center," says Detroit Developer Alfred Taubman. "Today, we want a minimum of 80 stores and average from 125 to 150." That puts a premium on compact use of land. To squeeze a potentially rival department store (Stix, Baer & Fuller) into their Crestwood Plaza near St. Louis, Developers Louis and Milton Zorensky erected a building on stilts above the parking lot. In a sharp departure from the norm of the '50s, department stores themselves provide the impetus nowadays for most regional centers; they pick the site, arrange for zoning and utilities, invite one or two competing stores to share...
...talking about Ken (he detests being called John) Galbraith, often in exasperated tones. "Mr. Galbraith is a very talented journalist and a very bad economist," declares Neil Jacoby, dean of U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Business Administration. "I wouldn't have him on my faculty." University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater's former economic adviser, dismisses him as a phrasemaker?"old wine in a new bottle." Purrs Conservative William F. Buckley, a personal friend but philosophical foe: "Econo mists I know say everything he writes on economics is either platitudinous or wrong?or both." Sneers Jacoby: "Sure...