Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston doctor paid $90,000 not long ago for a 300-acre tract in northeastern Vermont that included a picturesque 90-acre pond. Too late he found out that the pond is a town water source; every summer it is drained right down to its muddy bottom, and the state forbids swimming or boating at any time. The doctor is trying to unload the land. Another example: Ashley T. Murphy, a California builder, got design approval for a $9,000,000 apartment complex in Oceanside...
...City, Ariz., has drawn 28,000 residents (average age: 67) to a tract 16 miles northwest of Phoenix. It has enough athletic and recreation facilities to train an Olympic team: seven golf courses, four tennis courts, six lawn-bowling greens, a 16-lane bowling alley, Arizona's first indoor, air-conditioned shuffleboard courts, two artificial lakes and a 7,500-seat amphitheater for plays and concerts...
Other communities have passed laws limiting the height of buildings, thus curbing population density. Sanbornton, N.H., has zoned half its land against tract developers, ruling that new houses can be built only on six-acre lots. Livermore, Calif, issues building permits on the basis of the availability of water, sewage facilities and schools. Carson City, Nev., has chosen Boca Raton's route, and will cut off any further growth when its population hits...
Moratoriums and other emergency devices mainly represent a desperate reaction to the processes of uncontrolled growth. Since World War II, for instance, the rich potato farm lands of Nassau County, just beyond the eastern limits of New York City, have been transformed by tract houses, shopping centers, neon strips and drive-ins. Today the county is 96% fully developed, and the old distinctions between town and country are completely blurred in the semiurban mess. Similar helter-skelter growth afflicts counties around every major city, from coast to coast...
Much of this ground has been fought over before. Yet Kind and Usual Punishment is a persuasive tract with a murderous eye alike for delusive penal rhetoric and abusive practice. Eugene V. Debs once stated this ideal: "While there is a soul in prison, I am not free." Jessica Mitford has the sublime un reasonableness to treat that as an imperative...