Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single most important proposal Calkins made in his year with PACE was probably a tax-reform study he made in early 1965. The city schools' fundamental financial problem was clear: the Cleveland school district had a lower tax base to draw from than the suburban schools did, and Cleveland had to pay more of its tax-base revenue for police and firemen. There was simply too little money left over to support any kind of adequate city school system...
...plan was a country-wide income tax throughout Cuyahoga County -- which includes many of the suburbs, as well as Cleveland. If the proceeds were distributed to the poorest school districts in the country (i.e., Cleveland's), the practical result would be suburban subsides of the Cleveland system...
...school board needs money, Calkins finds the federal law that will let him get the money. If the suburban schools are too rich, he changes the tax law to send more money to the inner city. If there are too few teachers, he sets up a corps of teacher-auxiliaries. If all these plans cost money, he tells businessmen why the money is a good investment...
...attacks on him by telling well-dressed, middle-class audiences: "Funny, you don't look like black militants and white radicals." The line was no match for the Yorty advertisement showing a rather menacing picture of Bradley and asking the question: "Will your family be safe?" In white suburban neighborhoods, a new paste-up slogan appeared: AMERICA -LOVE IT OR LEAVE...
...series of soft implosions of self-perception. Janet realizes that she has been denying her impulses as a writer. She is guilty of self-censoring the matter and treatment of her work in order not to embarrass her family or jeopardize her suburban status. She vows that in the future she will make use of hate, envy, lust and fear. But for a woman who believes that art is condensed reality in the way that concentrated orange juice is the essence of a healthy breakfast drink, such a midyear's resolution will scarcely be enough...