New York is too big to be dominated by any group, by Wasps or Jews or blacks, or by Catholics of many origins — Irish, Italian, Hispanic. All have their little 【A21】______, all are sizable enough to be reckoned【A22】______ and tough in asserting their claims, but【A23】______ is powerful enough to subdue the others.【A24】______, the city swallows up the United Nations and refuses to take it【A25】______, regarding it as an unworkable 【A26】______ of the idealistic, the impractical, and the 【A27】______. But New Yorkers themselves are in training in how to live【A28】______ in a diversity of races — the necessary 【A29】______ into the future.
The【A30】______ gives endless color to the city, so that walking in it is a 【A31】______ education in sights and smells. There is a wonderful【A32】______ of places to eat or shop, and though the most successful of【A33】______ places are likely to be touristy hybrid 【A34】______ , they too have genuine roots. Other American cities have ethnic【A35】______ jealously defended, but【A36】______, I think, such an admixture of groups, thrown together in such jarring 【A37】______. In the same way, avenues of high-rise luxury in New York are【A38】______ far from poverty and 【A39】______ streets. The sadness and fortitude of New York must be celebrated, 【A40】______ with its treasures of art and music. The combination is unstable; it produces friction, or an uneasy forbearance that sometimes becomes a real toleration.
