Word: civics
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...Clinton: The difference is when I do it, I don't give a speech at a civic club, I do it in the inner cities. If you gave it to a group of wealthy individuals who want to be told that they have no responsibilities for the future of America, then it wouldn't have credibility...
When Healy's contract was up for renewal last Spring, the decades-old civic group Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)--which holds a five to four majority on the council--opposed renewal because they perceived Healy was perceived as too strong and independent from the council...
...homeless. In San Francisco, city planners have designed sleep- proof seats to chase the homeless from bus shelters. Santa Monica's police issue citations to people who loiter in parks after midnight; repeat offenders go to jail. Legislators in Madison, Wisconsin, have outlawed "aggressive panhandling." In Atlanta, where civic leaders want to polish their city in preparation for the 1996 Olympics, new ordinances make it illegal to sleep on park benches, wash motorists' windows or even walk onto a parking lot (unless the visitor has a car parked there...
These psychic genes shaped the face of American life. The interplay of civic-mindedness and conscience has given us whatever we have enjoyed of liberty, while success and industry have fattened our GNP. On the downside, the worship of usefulness has impoverished American art; one takes the bad with the good. Italians invented the Renaissance -- and live in chaos. We produced the Ashcan school -- and Abraham Lincoln...
...shrinkage of literal Wasps as a factor in the American mosaic is as inevitable as the multiplication tables, and a matter of little moment. What matters more is the shrinking of their values in the American mind. If Americans don't seem particularly hardworking or civic-minded these days, that is, at least in part, because the ways of the Wasp (now usually labeled "middle-class" or "Eurocentric") are such common targets of criticism $ and abuse. Anyone evincing them is apt to be labeled repressed, inauthentic, uptight or an "ice person...