Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic and educational peer of his new neighbors, many whites react with unreasoning fear or hostility to the idea of having a Negro next door. Few things have done more to create this attitude than the high incidence of crime and violence in the black ghettos. Moreover, the swift deterioration of some public housing projects occupied by Negroes leads many whites to believe that the arrival of a Negro family is the certain prelude to garbage in the streets, broken windows, cockroaches and rats-even though these conditions are unheard of in such carefully maintained middle-class Negro areas...
...wadded breasts or tight stays hidden under their clothes." The magistrates were greatly offended by Sinyavsky's suggestion that the government might transform human fetuses into fish to provide food for the people. The judges, lacking a sense of humor or satire, could not see the parallel to Swift...
...place of the great old trains and of its other long-haul passenger runs, the New York Central plans to start swift, spartan (no club cars) daytime shuttle service between some 80 cities along its 10,000-mile system. This, said Perlman, will "best serve the needs of the traveling public"-not to mention the Central's balance sheet...
Anything Can Be True. Barth's parable is something like Dante's, a pilgrimage within an invented cosmology. Here and there his prose matches the cool, deadly manner of Swift in dealing in an offhand way with the totally outrageous. He is as gamy as Swift; there are some campus orgies, and sex is kid's play to Goat-Boy. Like Swift, who satirized the casus belli between Britain and France as a dispute between Bigendians and Littlendians, Barth parodies today's split between the technologically similar but ideologically dissimilar East and West. Yet his prime...
...turmoil was not nearly so bad as it might have been; and for once New York-long considered one of the U.S.'s most problem-plagued cities-could attribute the trouble's swift suppression to some foresighted if only partly proved civic remedies. The frenzied Harlem riots of 1964 taught officials a frightening lesson. Negroes on the police force have been given better assignments. Mayor Lindsay recently appointed a seven-man review board-including two Negroes, a Puerto Rican, and two men active in civil rights groups-to handle the predominantly Negro complaints of police brutality. Beyond that...