CIVILITIS ...What Cities Do to Us, And What We Do to Cities - Garner Ted Armstrong & Robert L Kuhn - July 1971

Garner Ted Armstrong & Robert L Kuhn

Megalopolis. The mecca of madness: the sprawling agglomeration of concrete, asphalt, steel, brick, glass, billboards, traffic lights, and glaring neon; the cacophonous din of growling autos, buses, trucks and trains, the screech of sirens, the metallic staccato of jackhammers, the shrill whine of jet engines. The city. Millions live here. But is it really worth it? Our party has just returned from Rome. Four and one half hours. That's what it took from time up in the morning at the hotel to lift-off at Rome's Chiampino airport. Most of that time was spent in Rome's traffic snarls, with the driver alternately cursing under his breath, or leaning nearly half-way out the window to punctuate his remarks with that peculiarly Roman gesture of combined unbridled irritation and futility, the turned-up hand, with fingers lightly clenched, waving in agonized resignation. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library