Word: yorks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much more populous societies-diversity is one essential of greatness-the city must now have a population of several millions. Cincinnati and Phoenix, to cite two typical American provincial cities, may be agreeable places to live in, but they are simply not large enough to contain, as does New York, the wide variety of types and temperaments that form the American character. Americans and foreigners alike call New York the least American of cities. In fact, it is the most American, reflecting as does no other all aspects of national life. Still, great is not synonymous with big. Calcutta...
...many parts of greatness, Chicago, on the other hand, has always thought of itself as the "second city"-and so it always will be, if not third or fourth. Even without the political power that resides in a national capital-one of the usual prerequisites for civic greatness-New York, the cultural, financial and commercial capital, is thus the only truly great city...
...they cannot forget or long leave it. "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man," wrote Ernest Hemingway, who did love Paris, "then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." New York, wrote Thomas Wolfe, who did not always love it, "lays hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory; he feels that he can never...
...subcommittee, chaired by Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, says that Chicago's teachers were attacked 1,065 times last year-an eight-fold rise in five years. During the same period, student assaults increased by 500% in the Philadelphia school system, which recorded 116 incidents last year. New York City reported 180. In five months, San Francisco's elementary-school students attacked their teachers 83 times...
...present, the so-called solutions are grim and inadequate if not absurd. Many big-city slum schools have installed special lighting, hidden microphones, and burglar-alarm systems. New York City policemen often patrol their beats inside the schools. Yet exporting the custodial techniques of Sing Sing to the schools hardly creates authentic discipline, much less an atmosphere conducive to learning...