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America thus knows the small town to be many things. Yet today, given the morbid problems of the cities -the incessant shriek of crisis, the hovering buzzards of bankruptcy, the noise, the crowds, the filth, the violence, the fear-it is easy to imagine that the small town offers, no matter what else, an escape from all that. But does it really...
...ensure reproduction of natural wealth and improve the human environment." That lofty goal is honored mostly in the breach. Pollution in most urban areas is getting worse every year?not yet as bad as Los Angeles' or Detroit's, but getting there. The campaign to clean up the industrial filth in Lake Baikal?which became an international cause célèbre?has been the exception that proves the rule. Soviet environmentalists usually lose their battles against economic planners who are trying to meet short-term production quotas even if that means wasting resources or fouling the air, soil and water...
...right to produce, disseminate, and read/view obscene materials. That an archaic statute remains on the books in Cambridge is perhaps unfortunate, but hardly a significant threat to human freedom. If one really wants acess to pronography, 25 cents will take you to the combat zone and all the filth you could possibly want. This, it seems to me, is the real intent of the First Amendment: a guarantee that no perspective will be silenced...
...MBTA is a primary factor," Councilor Saundra Graham said. "The people waiting around for the buses have got to contribute to the filth of the Square," she added...
...themselves agreeing in some paraphrase of Elihu Root when he walked through a squalid Siberian village as Woodrow Wilson's emissary in the first Soviet revolutionary dawn. "I'm a firm his in democracy," he said, as he skeptically eyed his surroundings. "But I do not like filth...