May 1969 Issue [The Easy Chair] Seattle’s modern-day vigilantes Download PDF Adjust Share by John Fischer, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century City planning Finance James R. (James Reed) Ellis Politics and government Public works Seattle Seattle (Wash.) Urban policy Washington (State) World's Fair (1962 : Seattle, Wash.) More from John Fischer Ugliness and Tension The question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with that imperfection. So far as I… From “Letter from Leete’s Island Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee," January 1969 From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966 Adjust Share