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Harvard writes to my grandmother pretty regularly. She isn't a star academic, although she did attend Temple University and managed to raise seven daughters who all hold University degrees. She's not a celebrity, although when she points out the history of her house in Roxborough, a house my great-grandparents built, it feels like a monument. But it isn't, because Grammy is not a millionaire. Neither is my grandfather, although for some reason Harvard pursues them both with enough vigor for her to remark to me about how sorry she is she can't give. Then...
Other general practitioners are often less fortunate. Ninety percent of a young G.P.'s new patients in Philadelphia's white-collar Roxborough district are "floaters" with imagined ailments, who drift from one doctor to the next, demand "miracle" drugs and time-consuming examinations. Moreover, a city generalist competes with company and union-sponsored health centers as well as other G.P.s, and must augment his income from private practice by working for the city and a downtown insurance company...
...Small Town he talks about a place called Roxborough ("I have employed only the flimsiest of disguises"). Like a surgeon-sociologist, Author Hicks takes Roxborough apart, examining its community workings and its problems. He reviews its history (dull), its people (average), its public spirit (strictly limited), its politics (strictly Republican...
...Hicks is not too clear about what a resident intellectual should do to improve matters, nor too cheerful about Roxborough's prospects, with or without intellectual aid. But he still likes the place, even if the place doesn't altogether like him. "I cannot understand why anyone wants to live in New York or Chicago or Washington or San Francisco...
Faced with such an embarrassment of hospitality, the delegates could not make up their minds. Dodging a final decision, they recommended to the full 54-nation headquarters site committee a choice of three suitable areas: San Francisco's Presidio, Philadelphia's Belmont-Roxborough site, a tract near White Plains...