Word: extention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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True, a genuine restructuring of the U.S. landscape that would reverse the flow of black migrants from farms to crowded cities would ease the problems of the ghetto, perhaps even give the hard-pressed cities time and room enough to do more in eradicating slums. To some extent, improving the quality of life of any American sooner or later improves the quality of life of all Americans: water, air and green space know no class or color distinctions. The President quotes Theodore Roosevelt in a special statement in the current issue of FORTUNE magazine, which is devoted to environment. Roosevelt...
...courtly Senator John Stennis is fond of saying: "If it is the law in the South, it is the law outside the South." Like many of his fellow Southerners, Stennis is upset by what he considers the unfair treatment of his region by the Federal Government. To a large extent, his chagrin is understandable. Ever since the Government began its efforts to do away with school segregation, it has aimed its heaviest legal guns at the eleven Southern states, virtually ignoring educational segregation in the North...
...extent that is staggering from a U.S. point of view, the idea has caught on in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, England and, as one editor puts it, "even Spain." The "democratization" movement has flourished in the generally socialist climate of postwar Europe. Bitter experiences under the Third Reich or the Occupation prejudiced many journalists-both rank and file and at the top of the masthead -against extreme concentration of editorial control...
...cutting, this is free of self/other conceptions; it does not suggest some insidious link between their personalities. One does not see himself in the other; each is unified and individual. The cutting confronts one with the other. It also puts them together in the same situation, and to that extent links them morally. Because our knowledge of these men depends on no quality of subjectivity or identification, because all their experience is so directly presented, we can see their confrontation without adding associations foreign to their actual situation...
...least they are allowed more privacy, if not the right of cooking their own food. (They can also apply for the co-ops; of course, but these are so crowded that most of their occupants share double rooms-and there goes one's private life, to a good extent...