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And it struck me how much we needed one to buoy us up. But at that
time there were none of those plans to offer us the possibility of a
brave new city world. Fantasy or not, the plans are on paper now.
Someday there will be no more Chinese Wall, someday the Parkway
museum will get its interior finished up, and the tap water will be as
sparkling as champagne. The garbage will be collected promptly and,
perhaps, it will be Richardson Dilworth sitting as top dog in City Hall,
the <;;orridors not needing subdebs to sweep them clean-and the new
mayor will put lights
in
the Broad Street subway passages, so that no
more rapes will occur in them. And toilet paper
in
the firehouses.
Hollis Alpert
