The Streets Were Paved with Gold:

...West is one of the most shocking events Indeed, Auletta provides us with a perof the second half of the century...

...overstate my case...

...It raises the right economic system's ability to pay the bill policies, of historical and migratory patproblem, even if it provides the wrong pulls government in opposite directions...

...But that admission is perfloating theories...

...moderate, Auletta charges, the accoun- greed which is either non-existent or But, when all is said and done, if New tant got various raises adding up to a 14 exaggerated is equated with the role of York had been governed by people with percent increase between July 1975 and the banks which sold New York paper the values of Ken Gibson in Newark or June 1978...

...Repeatedly terms "religious crime" has become the inconsistency of complaining over he writes of contemporary developments widespread in American Catholicism 500 pages about the failure of others to in the church as "management probsince Vatican II...

...That is Finally, all of this leads Auletta to detional health and the passage of the well below the median income for nounce politics as such...

...Secondly, and lic interest...

...Politi- tomobile...

...Their it confuses the issue and thereby per- quirements of a free market (capitalism) traditional weapons-more money, petuates the disaster it sadly chronicles...

...A visit Random House, $12.95, 352 pp...

...Taxpayers moved to a nilly, touched by its preventive and.prinHow does the crisis come about...

...O.S.B...

...And yet the capital budget on the grounds that York's fiscal war, unavoidably, teaches The Streets Were Paved with Gold does schooling is an investment in human the limits of government intervention...

...Frederick Monarity...

...grammar, impossible style and tortured 6 July 1979: 409...

...It the light of Auletta's own data...

...suburbia which simply would not have cipled venality...

...Everybody in Ameri- huge allocation which, not so incidenLouis-may well take place in Los ca's doing it...

...Why not...

...The result is a Congregation for the Doctrine of the George A. Kelly work which falls distressingly short of its Faith has now conceded that truth can Doubleday, $14.95 self-set goal...

...at Loyola Synoptic Gospels: Matthew There can be few things more deservRev Brendan McGrath...

...Corporations re- dent upon Middle Eastern energy, prorises so do expectations...

...I leave aside the fact that times the income of a fireman who risks people-and probably from themselves...

...What occured in served...

...indeed be over...

...These per- references to Atlanta's breaking of a sani- Auletta's generalizations and sticks to his Commonweal: 408 facts (which, as far as I can tell, are only lature) there is much useful material on sor (who, if consulted, could have spared occasionally wrong, e.g., in his descrip- how some politicians turned necessity Kelly the derisive laughter of his foes...

...terns beyond its control, of local and state answers to them...

...more significantly to me, those stand- In saying all of these things-and I Another important part of Auletta's ards are wrong...

...As examples he lists: observe and enforce ecclesiastical disci- lems...

...Since workers-particularly the police and Democratic reform movement weakened two of my three proposals are quite firemen-did get some generous benefits "the ability of the dominant Democratic specific, I fail to see how this applies...

...It is sadly reported that the important than how it is spent...

...laws: the federalization of welfare, na- ripped off the people: $13,413...

...Government becomes a ficed to completely modernize the New issue with profound implications for the giant commissary where free lunch is York City subway system and the Long present and the future...

...ing of investigation and exposure today MW 4 35-5.50 P M. than the enormous amount of foolishness History of Christian Thought of Chicago and outright chicanery in American Rev Richard Smith...

...Cities demand more That sum, Auletta notes, would have sufacademic question...

...rich usually don't pay tally, helped to increase the choking conAngeles and Houston unless we under- their fair share of taxes...

...Gimme...

...He is CHURCH fessors today expect from their students, apparently unaware that even the Roman but not from a colleague...

...The perpetrators of such misdeeds, Kelly maintains, have so intimiFALL SEMESTER BEGINS dated church authorities at all levels that SEPTEMBER 4,1979 the latter "have,packed away from en- Study forcing their own well-known and well- ENDS DECEMBER 19,1979 understood laws," thus rendering law itThemes and Methods self "moot by nonattention...

...S J involved, however, the investigator must Sr Mary Peter McGinty, C.S.J...

...John's University inspires confidence...

...a whole and is stated in general terms...

...It is, of course, it is contained within a lengthy (too nomic trends shaped and subsidized by true that everyone in this society is, willy lengthy) account of a very specific case...

...But the tax, and other, "Government spending grows...

...Simply of the law...

...An institu- THEOLOGY in the Interpretation tion which does not correct disorder so of Biblical Thought flagrant, Kelly argues, is on the way to Rev...

...becomes painfully obvious when one agreement which had brought federal I replied that it could be resolved by the looks at the annual income of that ac- money into the city for the precise purpassage and implementation of three countant after he or she has supposedly pose of paying those sanitation men...

...the Djilas reference is totally inappropri- his life...

...Parents demand ceived handsome tax breaks when they vided the political pressure for the creatuition tax credits...

...was "once a marvel of good dalous public misconduct by priests and nuns...

...In July, 1975, theNew York Times as a base year) the devastating impact of double-crossing his own supporters in asked me (and a number of other policy 12.2 percent inflation in 1974...

...Col- In fairness, Auletta does recognize at Ken Auletta's The Streets Were Paved lege students don't repay their National least part of the case I have just stated...

...To more school aid...

...it offers some excellent To further social justice, New York City decisions whose origins are political, not reportage which is then encased in free- undertook tax, spending and borrowing ideological...

...his later years entrusted im- There is first of all the question of no warrant in the mandate of Christ" for portant administrative responsibilities Kelly's theological stance...

...Yet Beame made the worst of a bad situation class-what Milovan Djilas calls the those brokers are sometimes paid four by concealing the truth from the 'new class...

...Such theol- "the insistence of dissenters that theolothat might have led to Kelly's elevation ogy as the book contains is ill-digested, gians are intrinsic to the ecclesial Magisto the episcopate...

...The Catholic church, he claims "public confrontations with Pope and pline, when he himself sees no need to in his opening chapter "Who's in bishops, misuse of the Eucharist, scan- submit to the judgment of a church cen- Charge...

...an investment in "human capital," and though the city''s unions agreed to be In Auletta's methodology a union so on...

...First, it is exceedingly diffuse...

...It is true ers who thought about the long-term pub"whether money is spent becomes more . that a minority of New York City lic interest...

...A new graduate from an elite law Unpardonable games were played, ate (his new class was the Stalinist school starts at a pay roughly equivalent though the role of the corporate rich in bureaucracy and I assume that Auletta to a full professor at the end of his or her inventing them-the Rockefeller-John does not really intend such an analogy...

...It can be demonstrated have concentrated on theory, where Aubook-and of the national mythology that 95 percent of the activity of the New letta is weak, not on reportage where he about the New York City situation-is York Stock Exchange is without eco- is often quite useful-I do not want to the attack on irresponsible trade nomic value, i.e...

...S.J Catholicism since the Council...

...functory and it is clear where Auletta's starting point, it can help us deal with the The requirements of social democracy passionate conviction is: that "New urban crisis...

...Island Railroad...

...Auletta says that shows that fined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

...by the current standards of American so- party to discipline disparate voices...

...Conser- existed were it not for Washington's cre- handouts received by the oil multinationvatives like Nixon and Ford didn't stop ation of a publicly supported and man- als made the nation unnecessarily depenit, and liberals don't try...

...On the next page he quotes York, aged 61, to whom Cardinal demnation...

...If used carefully, as a policies which undermined its economy...

...Defaults is one more variant of the neoconser- That city -and most of the urban centers on student loans and the anti-social subvatism which is so ubiquitous these of the Northeast and industrial Middle sidies to corporations are subsumed days, but a most interesting variant since West-was a victim of massive eco- under the same category...

...It New York would still have faced a crisis...

...career...

...If one disregards 1st grade a 4.5 percent drop...

...Moreover, his book furnishes 0 TTh 4 35-5:50 P M numerous examples of the incorrect We are an equal opportunity educator/employer...

...a prestigious faculty appointment from rance on a matter so fundamental hardly Early in the book it becomes clear that the Vincentians at St...

...It is to take up an programs...

...As spending aged mortgage market...

...And a little later: "Gimme...

...In this lengthy the book appears without ecclesiastical not from theology at all, but from the book he undertakes to show that what he approbation...

...Kelly possesses Chicago, Illinois 60626 Rev John Powell, S.J neither...

...Auletta becomes furious with Mitchell "moral authority" bond, for Let me look at this "privileged" class in some contract provisions which the uni- instance-deserves more recognition...

...Quoting Robert Caro's Power is likely to make one meditate upon the Michael Harrington Broker, he tells how Robert Moses indecadence of a civilization which could vested $1.2 billion in a new deck on the permit such peacetime devastation...

...with approval a statement that "there is Spellman in...

...federal policy...

...All of this the union and refusing to act on an analysts) about the New York City crisis...

...Small wonder that Kelly's most important criterion is taken in Jamaica, Long Island...

...Books:MISDIAGNOSING THE CITY DISEASE THE DECLINE of the great cities of the TIE STREETS WERE PAVED WITI COLD try altogether...

...Following the selec- or just plain wrong...

...cians buy votes with public money...

...This is ted and subsidized at every point by the real purchasing power-and a patrolman further compounded by several laudatory federal government...

...So "the tension be- "Yes," he writes, "the city was, to even,irritating and often useful contribu- tween our social goals of equality and our some extent, the victim of federal tion to this discussion...

...Legislators get gestion of a city tormented by the austand, and master, those first urban catas- rich off lucrative law practices...

...As that miserable war should the other deteriorating urban centers, or Budgets were put together with mirrors, have instructed military adventurists on at least one has to do so carefully, with an e.g., educational monies were paid from the limits of American power, New appreciation of the differences...

...In short, that greedy ac- Simon-and then abandoned its old ment of corporate capitalism aided, abetcountant saw a 3.1 percent decrease in client in the hour of its need...

...Teachers demand moved to the Sun Belt or out of the coun- tion of a gigantic, polluting infrastructure Commonweal: 406 short, Auletta reminds us of an important centages, not so incidentally, understate tation strike, which is held up as a kind of case which disproves Auletta...

...But, as will be seen, even if Auletta's indictment suffers from imYork crisis which applies to the nation as such practices had never taken place, precision in at least two critical areas...

...fect illustration of the perversity of public to that legendary ruin, the South Bronx, policy...

...trophes...

...ask, why did it happen, is not to pose an guaranteed prices...

...The position Kelly here adopts tion of Terence Cooke as Spellman's Kelly calls the Eucharist "a repetition of implies that Christ gave the church a successor, Kelly chose to seek his for- the sacrifice of the cross," a statement fixed constitution...

...In an early chapter terium...

...and the liberty of people to move...

...MW 6.00-7 15 P M bring to his task theological precision, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 6525 North Sheridan Road Christian Spirituality and a sense of history...

...Kelly's igno- was the Holy Spirit...

...At one point, the indictment croupiers at a game played with used victim of huge and impersonal trends...

...In a critical discussion of process theology (introduced abruptly and without explanation in a chapter on "The Good old days of Cardinal Spellman Birth Control Battle"), Kelly criticizes those who decline to take "statements of THE BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN or ludicrous logic which university pro- the church simply as truth itself...

...Politics, he arHumphrey-Hawkins bill (which at that American families and it is far below a gues, was the "common denominator for time mandated reducing unemployment modest but adequate budget for a four- most of the fateful local decisions leading to 3 percent within 18 months of passage person family in New York City as de- to New York's fiscal crisis...

...work there...

...with Gold is a fundamentally wrong, un- Student Loans...

...Once again, scatter-shot is at work: the 1979 (or at any time between 1975 and Those gains did not convert the recipients banks are political, the unions are politi1979) deduct the outlays for welfare and into a "privileged class" but only placed cal, the minorities are political, and health in the New York City budget and them a few thousand dollars above me- therefore everybody is to blame...

...Auletta then adds, but does when that was hugely profitable -one of by the strike-breaking mayor of Atlanta, not comment upon, the fact that during the City's advisors was the arch-puritan, that would not have forestalled a disaster the same period the cost of living went up and even more arch-banker, William which was the work of the glacial move17.1 percent...

...defined, politics was the absence of leadI, like the rest of the left, believe that Let me not...

...Not surprisingly, John jay Hughes widely assumed to vindicate those who "once-for-all" is a favorite term of KelM ONSIGNOR GEORGE A. KELLY is a (if but half of what Kelly writes about ly's, and appears frequently throughout priest of the Archdiocese of New them is true) deserve the severest con- the book...

...just as not, as he himself insists, a typical which I obviously think is much more more troops, more bombs, more interdicAmerican city...

...which will convince none never be fully expressed once-for-all in but the converted...

...if it is accepted uncritically, and greater equality clashed with the re- York City is the left's Vietnam...

...what he actually gave tune in the academic world, and accepted which is formally heretical...

...Farmers demand George Washington Bridge in the Fifties...

...and which will be ecclesial statements...

...There was mismanagement in tion, more pacification programs didn't wrong to apply his facts and analyses to New York City, no doubt about it...

...In a decade over hall Northeast and industrial Middle Ken Auletta million jobs disappeared...

...Therefore it would be accurate...

...stockbrokers are suggest that New York City is merely the unionists...

...tion of the Stavisky bill in the state legis- into a vice...

...Even of the entire income structure...

...becomes extreme: "What happens when certificates having nothing to do with People like John Lindsay and Abraham ordinary workers become a privileged current investment or productivity...

...the assault on public employee living model of toughness...

...develop a broad theory about the New "capital...

...Two points are important here...

...And add in the revenues which full employ- dian income instead of a few thousand who, or what, will provide that nonment would bring on the basis of that 3 dollars below it as was the case with political standard of the "long-term pubpercent definition, the fiscal crisis would Auletta's accountant...

...formed services won from John Lindsay was outrageous that a Lindsay would use In showing how the deceitful unions but he, like almost eveyone else in the capital funds for short-term educational bilked the public, Auletta gives us the society, ignores the systemic irrationality costs on the grounds that schooling was case of a municipal accountant...

...Auletta does not All this leads me to a self-interested standards since they omit (by taking 1975 mention that it also involved the mayor's point...

...S. J. TTh 6:00-7:15 P M disintegration...

...more programs, more taxes, more Auletta focuses on New York which is Let me suggest another theory, one borrowing-didn't work here...

...Instead, there was that New York-and Detroit and St...

...But does Kelly not realize world of American business...

...Precisely For application or information contact: TTh 7:25-8-40 P M. because of the importance of the issues Christology Rev Earl Wens...

...But more importantly, if one would, in ciety...