Word: partisanship
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City Politics examines the structure of urban politics: the electoral system, the distribution of authority, the centralization of influence; and analyzes the forces and groups involved: reform, non-partisanship, businessmen, the Negroes. The authors see a steady trend toward middle-class values in politics--honesty, "good government," concern for the entire community as opposed to specific neighborhoods. As these middle-class values gain acceptance, the old political machines crumble and are superceded by stronger centralized governments. Although administrative authority becomes concentrated, effective political power decreases, because the centralizing influence of the machine has been destroyed...
...affable, pipe-smoking ex-college professor whose air of rumpled relaxation is deceiving. He is a driving administrator, has worked twelve to 16 hours a day himself, and expects his staff to do the same. He is a militant Democrat who drew constant fire from Wisconsin papers for his partisanship while tax commissioner-a nonelective office. But even state Republicans have grudging respect for him. Said one last week: "He's a surprisingly good administrator. And you just can't stay...
...more, President Kennedy himself is to blame for the record of the 88th. The G.O.P. unity that New Frontiersmen grumble about is in part a response to Kennedy's incessant partisanship, his overzealous efforts to play politics with legislation. Kennedy, furthermore, has hurt some of his own most-heralded proposals. For example, he blurred the prospects for tax revision by submitting a budget with an $11.9 billion deficit...
...Land. Criticism for Arnold was not a matter of practical reforms but a perilously held, ultimately priceless state of mind. To see things steadily and see them whole. Never to praise what is merely good as if it were really excellent. Above all, in an age much given to partisanship, to remain "disinterested." One of Arnold's heroes was Edmund Burke-not because he agreed with Burke's views, but because, after years of eloquent attack on the French Revolution, Burke closed his commentary by admitting that another interpretation might one day be possible...
...Atomic Energy Commission's action deserves commendation, for it represents a refreshing break from the commission's past emphasis on partisanship and political expediency...