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«The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth»
Author: Eric Sevareid
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
affluent, Affluent society, minded, relentless, roadway, roadways, single-minded, slum, slumming, suburbia
«The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.»
Author: Ezra Taft Benson
| Keywords:
behavior, changes, changing, christ, environment, Human behavior, Human nature, inside out, mold, molding, molds, shape, slum, slumming, slums, the LORD
«The slum is the measure of civilization»
«Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year -- and therefore did.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
Advanced Technology, advancing, beaches, cement, cementing, cements, countryside, every year, Famous Or, glimpses, high-priced, high technology, hotels, jets, meadows, priced, slum, slums, surf, surfing, sweetness, The Beaches, tourists, tropical, vanish, wildness
«Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| Keywords:
apathy, breeding, breeding ground, delirium, grounds, incubator, incubators, middle class, slum, slumming, slums, suburb, suburbs
«Well, this slum cost a lot of money. It should look better than an ordinary slum. [When told it was supposed to be a slum]»
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