Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Affluent Communists...
Lowe places the blame for this failure with the city authorities. The education of Negro children in Roxbury is retarded by "an unwillingness of the school administration to admit that differences exist between the culturally deprived or ghetto areas and more affluent society." The critical recognition of these differences must come from the school administration as a statement of policy, and it must lead to a broad revision of educational techniques. The needed changes are too large to be effected by individual teachers or even by whole faculties...
...longer the passive pastoral society that quivered before Stalin. The Kremlin will increasingly feel the pressures of an urban culture that is no longer resigned to an indefinitely receding Utopia. Communism's Kafka-and-abacus stage is already being overtaken by its Pasternak-and-hi-fi era. Affluent Communists might not be any easier to live with. But they would certainly have more to live...
Johnson did break some ground of his own. In a bow to the affluent society, he recommended that FHA operations be extended to insure mortgages on vacation homes. He asked for 25,000 additional public-housing units each year, to be added not through new construction but more quickly by Government purchase or lease of existing unoccupied structures. In his freshest innovation, the President offered a three-part program to combat the "space-consuming, unplanned and uneconomic" sprawl of suburbia. Johnson would 1) grant direct loans to help communities set aside land for future public facilities, 2) insure subdivision builder...
ADELA still conspicuously lacks capital support from affluent German, French and Canadian companies, and still has to prove that it can turn a private profit in chaotic Latin America. But the man who originated the idea for the organization and won it early support, New York Republican Senator Jacob Javits, feels confident enough to let the businessmen take over while he steps down to an advisory role...