Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daddy has lost his job as an aerospace executive. The family finances are a shambles. Neighborhood stores have stopped giving credit where credit is overdue. What stern measures can the family bring itself to take in the face of this crisis? Simple. Dad will stop eating steak, Daughter will give up her skiing lessons, and Mom will resign from the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...siege of New York was not just another neighborhood rumble on the tight little island that is the nation's publishing capital. New York Magazine Co., with revenues of $26 million last year, not only publishes the much-imitated New York (circ. 375,000) and the nation's leading counterculture weekly newspaper, the Village Voice (circ. 162,000), but has already started its own invasion of the West Coast with the successful launching last April of New West (circ. 290,000). The company's takeover by Rupert Murdoch marks an important new addition to the largely sex-and-scandal press...
...ones. I'm beginning to tire of all this pop psychology though. It doesn't have much to do with New York as an upper-middle-class service magazine." Murdoch plans to reverse Felker's transformation of the Village Voice over the past couple of years from a gritty neighborhood weekly to more of a faddish entertainment guide. "It's got away from politics," Murdoch complains. "It's gone too much into life-styles." As for Felker's infant New West, "It's superb. I would not want to change anything." Murdoch promises that he will not try to edit...
...truth is Chicago did not work, but Richard J. Daley did. Daley worked. He worked because he embodied the city, reflecting the feelings, moods and characteristics of many of its citizens. And he was genuine. He lived his entire life in the same Irish back-of-the-yards neighborhood. He talked like his constituents. He revered God and family. Daley made the transition from boss to father figure, columnist Mike Royko wrote, and that holds the clue to how this brontosaurus succeeded...
...under 30 can remember anyone else being mayor. Chicagoans worshipped the man. He received over 70 per cent of the vote in four of his six elections; he carried every one of the city's 50 wards in the '75 primary, except the liberal-chic University of Chicago neighborhood and the professionally liberal 43rd ward. Many wept in the streets when the end came, and all citizens, whatever their views, felt a sense of loss. The mayor touched the lives of every single person in Chicago and that meant a lot. To those who went along--a large number...