Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some Little Men's Chowder & Marching Society (imagine Arthur Schlesinger impersonating Peter Pan) still jesting and warbling about Wilson and De Gaulle, dieting and astrology, parking problems and fixit-men. They are topical satirists, yes, and still provide a wonderfully pleasant show, but they might almost have performed this review back then, or their first one now; for their "time-liness" is tuned only to a decade. As in most modish, ultra-civilized company, there's a charming irrelevance about their complaints...
Yesterday's development left one large question in the minds of opponents of the highway. How serious would the review by the state...
...District Attorney and head of the New York State Elks just has to be some kind of reactionary McCarthyite, despite any evidence to the contrary. Although O'Connor has consistently opposed capital punishment and compulsory civil commitment of drug addicts, and is strongly supporting Mayor Lindsay's civilian review board, many City liberals still insist on seeing him as a pawn of the reactionary Archbishop of Brooklyn...
...blood and violence: these two incidents outline the double view that New York's thousands of Negro and Puerto Rican citizens hold of their Mayor. Lindsay demonstrates his almost puritanical commitment to the principle of social equality every day: he walks the streets of Harlem, he appoints a civilian review board, he fights with Washington for more anti-poverty money. But these sincere efforts have so far failed to bring forth much that people can see. The boredom, frustration, and poverty of the East New York streets exploded with an impatience for results...
Second, Lindsay fought uphill battles to establish two controversial institutions to protect the rights of minority groups: a Police Department review board and a set of neighborhood city halls. The review board, now in operation, can only recommend disciplinary action against police officers. It is, nonetheless, vehemently opposed by the Conservative Party and the Policeman's Benevolent Association, which have collected more than 55,000 signatures to put the issue on the November ballot. Lindsay's pet reform, the establishment of neighborhood city halls to handle residents' problems and complaints, was temporarily frustrated by city legislators. The Board of Estimate...