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What saddens some Germans even more than the traffic is the news that more than 200 of the ancient dwellings in Heidelberg's Altstadt-the "Old Town" where generations of Heidelberg students loved to stroll-are near collapse from neglect and fungus rot. Loath to destroy the Altstadt (and along with it a lucrative tourist trade), Heidelbergers are equally reluctant to try to raise the $50 million needed to restore the buildings...
...data and analyses of outside agencies and individuals. Both sides surrendered some of their independence when they act as a clearing house for the views of others. Proponents slight the treaty's importance by permitting opinionated experts to inflate minor uncertainties into forboding obsessions. In the process, the proponents neglect to examine the area in which they are best qualified, the political consequences of the treaty...
More than anything else, Mott's philanthropy is aimed at one aspect of Flint life. "Educators these days are concentrating on geniuses," he says. "We don't neglect them, but we're more interested in hoi polloi." His new $128 million gift to the foundation has not been earmarked for any specific purposes. Explains Mott: "My push is largely in the direction of people who have less opportunity, so we're promoting education for people who haven't had the opportunity to learn...
...make it possible for the majority of American Negroes to reach the point at which they can compete on a basis of equality." A "compensatory effort" on the part of the whites, said the League, "may well be the only means of overcoming the heavy aftermath of past neglect." The organization's Director Whitney Young argues that what is needed is a massive domestic Marshall Plan to help ready Negroes for acceptance of their legal rights. U.S. whites, he insists, have had "special privileges" for centuries. Now Negroes should be given "special privileges" for a limited period of time...
...would seem, in short that the problem with present-day liberalism is partly the neglect of its own historical precedents. Hence the facility with which it rejects, with an historical air, contemporary expressions of particularism. (No doubt the use of particularistic norms by German Nazism assisted the current attitude towards particularistic groups, and this is understandable enough; but there is certainly nothing in particularism as such that would necessarily lead to the grotesque and barbaric consequences for excluded groups as Nazism did for Jews.) Moreover, in the case of the Negro's use of particularistic norms, a more serious neglect...