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Naturally, the consequence of such prices is that people are clawing their way into every inch of Manhattan space available. After a long quiescence, builders are now providing more space all the time, both office and living. In the East Side area between 50th and 94th streets???the heart of the matter, if the Big Apple were an artichoke?at least eight new co-ops or condominiums are currently in some stage of completion, all high-rising and luxurious, of course, and all smack in the center of things, which accounts for their appeal. At the proposed 44-story Museum...
...machines, 48% own cars, and 52% own television sets. In the Los Angeles district of Watts, California's most notorious Slough of Despond, the orderly rows of one-story, stucco houses reflect the sun in gay pastels, and only the weed-grown gaps between stores along the wide main streets???"instant parking lots"?hint at the volcanic mob fury that three years ago erupted out of poverty to take 34 lives and destroy $40 million worth of property...
Voltaire, Diderot and others extracted from Locke what they chose, and the rational individual was enthroned as monarch of the universe. Never was the triumph of individualism more swiftly followed by disaster. In the French Revolution the Goddess of Reason danced in the streets???until she found herself at the foot of the guillotine. It remained for Napoleon to create from the Revolution the modern state (including the draft and the secret police) in which individual men are submerged in the abstract glory of the nation...
...towns and villages have not their broken ragpicker, their derelict mower of lawns or sweeper of streets??? belly lurched out in a flabby bag, neck narrow and bowed to an ugly vertebrate knuckle, legs short and wobbly, feet flat and weak, head huge and misshapen, with drooling mouth, bleary, vacant eye, putty nose and unkempt thatch of hair. He is the "village idiot," the Tom o' Bedlam of an earlier day. His condition is answered for nowadays by Science as resulting from deficiency of the thyroid gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential...
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