“I lived at Henry Horner during a turbulent period–the ’60s,” recalls poet Cranston Knight in Loyola World (February 13). “It was like living in El Salvador or Guatemala: the military were posted with machine guns on the corners, and there were signs everywhere that literally said, ‘If you come out after 6 p.m., we’ll shoot you.’ We had to keep the bathtub full of water at all times, because at the first sign of tension the water, electricity, and gas would be cut off.”
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“If these boys are such hot-shot players, why is it an open fact that we all respect their women more?” asks Jon-Henri Damski in Windy City Times (February 27). “Why is it that we like Barbara better than George, Hillary better than Bill? Because in terms of savvy, issues and awareness, we know that these ‘boys’ actually walk two steps behind their women. Jeanne Simon should be Senator, not Paul. Barbara should be President, not George. And, for the same reason, Carol should be Senator, not Al.”
“While the University of Chicago has been a source of many schools [of thought], so has Chicago as a city,” Milton Friedman told the U. of C. civic dinner last fall (University of Chicago Record, February 20). “You have the Chicago School of Architecture, led by Mies van der Rohe, you have the Chicago School of Psychiatry, andÉI am sure I could name you many more. How come? I believe the answer is that in order to have a rich seedbed for new developments, you have to have a respect for diversity….New York is a great city, but it is … extraordinarily homogeneous in its intellectual atmosphere. Had I, for example, made my career in New York, I am sure I would have been regarded as a crackpot all my life and not only for part of it. But in Chicago, which is a raw city bursting with energy, trying one thing after another from its very beginning, I was able to be a crackpot for a part of my life and in the mainstream for the rest.”
