Word: civics
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...running these big, often balky cities, with their honking traffic problems, endless building and demolition, civic scandals and sinister crimes is one that would tax and unnerve a Caesar. The proper mayor of the modern U.S. city is not merely a civil servant, a political boss and a ceremonial ribbon snipper; nowadays he must be a skilled sociologist, a knowledgeable planner, a first sergeant, a public relations expert and a television performer. For better or worse, he is the image of his city-and, to a remarkable degree, His Honor usually mirrors his city's personality...
...telegram sent to 40 civic leaders last Friday, Niebuhr called for protests against McDew's arrest. Besides Niebuhr, signers of the telegram were A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; James Farmer, national director of CORE; Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP; and Whitney Young, executive director of the Urban League...
...Needs It? Most New Yorkers, notably apathetic in matters of civic pride, regard with horror the prospect of visiting hordes who will turn the city's already crowded subways and buses into rolling sardine cans. Financiers, remembering the bleak profit history of the 1939 fair, can scarcely be delirious over the prospect of investing in a new one. Still, the World's Fair of 1964-65 Corp. is confident that everybody does indeed need it-notably, New York's merchants and innkeepers. But with an uneasy 700-odd days left in which to line up exhibitors, foreign...
...forms and strengthened a strong and even peculiar personal tone that sounds a little like cubistic Browning. Like Browning, he seems to lack or at any rate to disdain the gifts of melody and phrase; though now and then, as in his lament for the passing of the civic virtues that once made Boston great, he gets off a sizzling epithet...
...outlined the executive committee's plans to put the membership through intensive study of both political issues and educational techniques. Independent reading will alternate with weekly seminars to train students for speaking appearances before audiences in the Boston region. The committee said they would try to get engagements with civic organizations and others, including labor and church groups...