Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symbolism, a U.S. presidential election is not a contest between good and evil, a referendum on war, or a race between philosopher-kings that dissidents can safely ignore because party leaders have rejected the loftiest candidates. Viewing the election in such terms is no more realistic than the dreams of McCarthyites who expect to take over the Democratic Party after Humphrey loses. That hope is likely to be foiled by party professionals who, unlike the McCarthy amateurs, work at politics full time; much the same happened on the Republican side, when the pros shut out the Rockefeller forces who refused...
...Kish in the valleys of Mesopotamia 5,500 years ago, the city has been the nerve and growth center of civilization. Despite their seemingly insoluble problems, cities are more than ever the creative heart of American society. Indeed, the city and its compounded quandaries-from the problem of race to the issue of law and order-dominate almost all social and political debate in the country today. Ultimately, no city can solve the problems alone, for they belong to the whole society...
...many as 97,000 pupils a day succeeded in entering classrooms. Some parents camped in the schools so that their children could not be locked out again. What began as a labor dispute grew from day to day into a more fundamental quarrel of the teachers' union, politics, race and culture, tearing at the five boroughs of what had always been regarded as the most liberal, tolerant and cosmopolitan city in America. "If it were just a labor dispute," said an aide to the Mayor, "that would be one thing. But there's far more at stake...
...more than the career of John Lindsay-or even the stability of the nation's largest city-was at stake. The same forces of race and poverty, fear and instability that transfix New York now are present in scores of other U.S. cities, large and small. New York contains all the elements that are directing the course of the 1968 election cam paign. New Yorkers' concern with the quality of life, with impersonal or unresponsive organizations, with law and order-all these are national issues. Historically, New York is a pattern setter. If it should prove ungovernable...
...York's current troubles, said Lindsay, do not reflect just a breakdown in labor and race relations. "It's a transition from the old to the new. The school dispute is not just a labor dispute. It has to do with social change." But some groups and individuals are unable to face the change, and react with violence. "These are the tempers of the time. They killed Martin Luther King with bullets. They killed Robert Kennedy with bullets. They'll kill more of the other moderates before they're through...