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...essentially strong, if its financial distortions continue much longer, it could tumble into serious difficulties. Some prominent Wall Streeters worried aloud last week that the economy stands on the brink of financial crisis. They were frankly concerned that marginal corporations, which have exhausted their cash and bank credit during the long money famine, may be unable to raise necessary funds and fall into bankruptcy...
...American city is commonly portrayed as hovering on the brink of decay and disaster. Is this picture overdrawn? Indeed it is, according to a recently published book, The Unheavenly City, that has found favor with the Nixon Administration and has aroused considerable controversy among academicians. Combining a ruthless logic of argument with an engaging tolerance of tone, Edward Banfield, 53, professor of urban government at Harvard, contends that many urban problems are largely imaginary. In fact, says Banfield, the cities are performing better than ever...
...much of the book's content will find themselves wishing that someone besides Kelman had decided to say it. One need not be a great fan of confrontation polities, the Progressive Labor Party, or communists-in-the-peace-movement to feel that Kelman has gone bouncing off the hysterical brink in attacking these bogeymen...
...disillusionment was rooted in hearsay, however close the source, rather than experience. We never organized black people into voting blocks in the Deep South only to see white power groups intimidate them into submission while the law looked the other way. We never followed the "new politicians" to the brink of social challenge only to have them retreat in the face of party pressure. And we never spent years in the Peace Corps helplessly watching people starve to death in third world cities, our hands tied by a bureaucracy that wanted tranquil, innocuous show-cases of American benevolence...
...Making of an Un-American deserves a serious reading from anyone who wants to put together something like a theory for the Sixties. It is a must for an understanding of how we arrived at the brink of civil war. And because of its eminently readable style and warmth, it may be the first eloquent plea for revolution that ever reaches our parents' bedstands...