Found all over quoted on the webs
Quoted by “James Marston Fitch, New York Times, May 1, 1960”
Is there some way I can access that actual article without having to go to a gigantic library and get out the microfiche?
There’s this little thing called the “Internet” that spares you “having to go to a gigantic library and get out the microfiche.” So here is a link to the abstract. Note that unless you subscribe to the New York Times website, you may have to pay $3.95 to view the actual article.
Ironic post-username combo.
Roddy
Yes but I wanted to avoid paying for it . . . you see, the public library is free, and the NY times isn’t. I’m one of those people who’s not big on paying for content (ruining the internet with our lechery, that’s me)
Your public library might give you free online access to the NYTimes archives. Check what online services are available with your library card.
BTW, how did a quote from a fifty-year-old article get posted all over the Internet?
This.
Almost every local public library has free access to the Historic NY Times.
I pay for a service so that I can access it and many others from home.
Is there something specific in the article you need to know? I can’t post the whole article here, but would be glad to give you some help otherwise.
How far is the public library from you? Do you have to drive there? If it’s more than four miles away, it’s cheaper to pay the 3.95 than to drive to the library to read the article. The true cost of driving is .50 per mile, so an eight-mile round trip costs $4.
Incidentally, I just did a count using Google and found that this quotation appears something like 143 times in various places on the Internet. I’m not sure why it’s so common, but it certainly is.
It would be nice if the OP drove to the library to get his article about how evil cars are.
I just downloaded the article from the NYT. It has quotes from Fitch’s speech, which was given to the Academy of Political Science.
If you want the full text of the speech itself, it was published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, vol. 27, No. 1 (May, 1960), pp. 2-11.
You can get it from JSTOR if you can get to a library that has a subscription.
A book of Fitch’s collected writings also includes “In Defense of the City” and you can view some of the relevant sections here. The words are changed somewhat from his speech, and from the PAPS article, but the general argument is the same.
The relevant section starts at the bottom of page 264.