Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is another tool which the City has at its disposal to assist in the provision of housing for low and moderate income families--urban renewal. In the past, urban renewal has often been a dirty work in our city and many others. But that need not be the case. Urban renewal provides a critical element in the process of providing more reasonably priced housing--it reduces the cost of assembling and preparing property for redevelopment or rehabilitation. There are new, more flexible renewal procedures such as Neighborhood Development Program and the advance availability of rehabilitation funds for future renewal...
...past, a barrier to using renewal tools has been the justifiable suspicion on the part of the community of urban renewal being used "on" them. If we are to take advantage of renewal, we must wipe out these suspicions. I therefore recommend that the council adopt as a matter of public policy a procedure which will allow the approval of residential renewal projects only after a policy committee, composed solely of residents of the project areas, with full veto powers over the plans, approves those plans. It is in this manner, and only in this manner that we can establish...
Someday, if men find peace, they wil turn back to their libraries and museums, to the books and manuscripts and letters that make up their cultural past. The challenge facing the Houghton Library--where the spirit of Emerson, Longfellow, Henry James, and thousands of others lives on--is to guide them...
...then, asleep in Winthorp House. At two a.m., I had left those best and most creative people walked guilty down the stairs between their files of eyes, walked across that dark yard past the reasonable student government people who had stayed up to argue and to observe, walked more guiltily yet past the friendly University policeman on Quincy Street, walked home in the cold, past the House where slept the Great Uncommitted with whom I felt I had less in common than with those romantics, or even those radicals...
...COURSE, the strike doesn't have to end. Maybe we should create the campus equivalent of perpetual revolution, a third act to "Marat/Sade" as it were. My own guess is that even the most devoted romantic found the past two weeks taxing, even boring. You get nervous, you can't be alone when you walk the streets, you hear someone mention "confrontation" or "sincerity" and you want to put your hands on your ears and run and run and run. I believe it was George Orwell who said that the problem with socialism is that it takes up too many...