Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CERTAINLY, New York public schools are in serious trouble," Fred Hechinger, the New York Times education editor, angrily told a frosty private-school audience in 1981. "So is the Transit Authority. But none of you is about to say to the people of New York, "Let them ride limousines.'" Hechinger spoke from the era when, whatever education's difficulties in execution, the underlying philosophy required a relentless drive for improvement. The post-World War Two birth of the equal opportunity principle took place in a period of increasing funding and optimism. Practical difficulties which later emerged seemed for years...
...standing ovation to Rohatyn. He urged the Administration to revive the New Deal's old Reconstruction Finance Corporation to provide longterm, low-interest federal loans so that cities, which find interest rates too high to float municipal bonds, can rebuild bridges, sewers, firehouses, schools and deteriorating mass-transit systems. Such a revolving fund, he said, should "selfdestruct in ten years" as revitalized cities repay the loans. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder of Chicago's self-help Operation PUSH, charged that before Reagan, federal programs for the cities were "humane, sensible, broadly based," while under Reagan they are "anti...
Commencement also has an impact outside of the ivied walls. By agreement with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, construction work on the Red Line ceases one day a year. And while the MBTA workers get a day off, most of the Square's other employees are extra busy...
...travel to be in some sense transformed. Travel is process, a transit, a sheer going there as much as an arriving. Travel equals transformation over time. It is everything experienced from start to finish. What happens to travel when it consists of getting onto a big plane and eating a tray dinner and having a drink and watching a movie? And then getting off the plane at an airport much like the one we left and riding to a big hotel and finding a room where the toilet seat wears a preposterous paper sash FOR YOUR SANITARY PROTECTION? Our amazement...
...Brown Shirt." It is just this kind of unjustified hypersensitivity that so often hurts the liberal cause. Consider the facts about the Guardian Angels: founded in October 1978 as a volunteer group, the Angels have expanded to more than 2000 members who walk the streets and ride the mass transit unarmed in 33 cities. Facing what The New York Times has called "chilly indifference to outright opposition" from the police, the Angels have not yet been accused of any of the dire misdeeds that liberals fear and police apparently would love to reveal. The Angels--at least so far--obey...