新世纪英语专业综合教程(第二版)第4册 Unit10.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 13 And it was not a hundred years ago but two years ago that a suggested law giving a small amount of federal money for rat control was literally laughed off the floor of the House of Representatives amid much joking about discrimination against country rats in favor of city rats. 14 What happened, I think, was not the direct result of “the city is evil and therefore we will not help it” concept. It was more indirect, more subtle, the result of the kind of thinking that enabled us to spend billions of dollars in subsidies to preserve the family farm while doing nothing about an effective program for jobs in the city; to create government agencies concerned with the interests of agriculture, veterans, small business, labor, commerce, and the American Indian but to create no Department of Urban Development until 1965. Text13-14 Text II Memorable quotes Text15 Text II Memorable quotes 15 In other words, the world of urban America as a dark and desolate place undeserving of support or help has become fixed in the American consciousness. And we are paying for that attitude in our cities today. Text1 – About the text Text II Memorable quotes About the text ― This text is taken from The City published by W.W. Norton and Company in 1969. Text1 – About the author Text II Memorable quotes About the author ― John V. Lindsay was born in 1921 and died of illness in 2000. He belonged to the Republican Party and served as the 103rd mayor of New York City from 1966 to 1973. Much of the drive behind the settlement of America was in reaction to the conditions in European industrial centers － and much of the theory supporting the basis of freedom in America was linked directly to the availability of land and the perfectibility of man outside the corrupt infl