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Thus urban renewal will have only a cosmetic effect on our cities, and the billions of dollars invested will be lost, unless it is combined with comprehensive programs of low-cost housing, education and social services designed to bring the marginal people and businesses back into the main stream of our society...
Captured documents showed that the rebel leaders themselves were having trouble with their chaotic troops. Commanders evidently had to field a steady stream of inspectors to keep the simbas (or "lions," as the rebel soldiers call themselves) in line. The rebels, like most Congolese, could not kick their tribal superstitions. One communique from a rebel officer ended with an urgent P.S.: "I beg monsieur le colonel to make sure that all bridges in our territory be washed with medicine to protect against bombardment...
...looks like a big shaggy beast that has been out in the rain. Rumpled suit, tangled hair, drooping moustache, he lumbers onto the stage and stares in shy bewilderment at the audience. Rivulets of sweat stream down his face. He hikes one stumpy leg onto a straight-back chair, lazily scratches his guitar and sings. The voice is honest, pleasant, but nothing special. Yet when Georges Brassens sings, all Paris cocks...
Goldwater is a threat, not because he moves counter to the stream of American life and thought, but because he represents a strain woven deeply into the American mythology--the self-sufficiency of the individual. Belief in the individual is essential to any liberal society, but Goldwater extrapolates this concept from its social context and makes it all-important. Society becomes a mere collection of atomistic units, each an island unto himself. It is regarded as they, not we. It is the individual's lack of identification with society that enables him to excuse his irresponsibility by saying 'Society...
...golden knack of making a five or six second conversation seem like a five or six minute heartwarming chat. His watchful eye and instant charm combine to woo that special type of person who might actually be swayed by the flattery of special attention. He will pass up a stream of people gushing from a crowded bus and go twenty or thirty feet away to shake hands and have a few words with some lonely figure watching him shyly from afar...