Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America's troubles, as Whitehead suggests, painful signs of new fruitfulness to come? Or is the U.S., as others insist, a doomed society, grown divided and decadent even before it could come to maturity? Not only hope but hard evidence points to the Whitehead hypothesis. One thing ought to be clear from experience. Whether God is dead or not, belief in God or something very like him seems to be an ecological necessity for the balance of man in society. The same is true of faith in the possibility of progress and a sense of mission in the world...
...longer interested in a lot of conferences and meetings, or surveys and graphs and study commissions. We've been analyzed and graphed and surveyed for too long. We need action now. We want to give white America the chance to show that there is such a thing as equality of opportunity, regardless of race, creed, or color...
...slums are not the only thing wrong with U.S. cities, and the urban crisis can never be solved until Americans change their concept of the city itself. Central to any change is control of the automobile. With the Federal Highway Act, which offers 90% federal funding for expressways, the Government destroyed any possible balance between cars and other forms of transportation, such as subways and monorails. Though subways might be more efficient, cities have in effect been offered expressways virtually free. The lure has usually proved irresistible, and as a result cities?not to mention the countryside?have been torn...
...supposed to be a vital part. Even worse, except for some projected excellent landscaping, there is little effort to create neighborhoods at Co-Op City, or a feeling of community. Instead, residents are treated like clean socks, rolled up and tucked into gigantic bureau drawers. Wasted muscle. The saddest thing about Co-Op City is that its bleak environment was achieved at great public cost. Only governmental assistance can put good housing within the grasp of big-city dwellers who earn an average of $7.500 a year, not to mention the poor. At Co-Op City, state and city governments...
...situations are very strange. Townshend has a very strange head. Some of the lyrics make no sense internally. "I'm a Boy" is about a boy whose parents insist that he is a girl, and he wants to act like a boy, but he's afraid. Why? Well, the thing about Who songs is that they always make perfect sense within the right context. I couldn't imagine a situation in which "I'm a Boy" would have made sense, except if his parents were crazy. But then I read that it was part of a whole story, an early...