Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many urbanologists, the problems of the city will not be solved until closer links are forged between core and suburb. University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade speaks of a "crabgrass curtain" dividing the two, declares: "Two divisive elements frustrate at tempts to master the metropolis-division of the metropolitan area on the basis of race, and division on the basis of city and suburb." Agrees New York's Lindsay: "Whatever strengthens the core city strengthens the suburbs, and vice versa." The problem, as Columbia University Urbanologist Charles Abrams puts it, is one of resources. "The wealth has gone...
...badly needed $216 million a year. But the decision represents as much a hello to Europe as a farewell to the Far East, since it is in large part a concession to Charles de Gaulle, who demands that Britain give up some of its far-flung responsibilities and draw closer to Europe as a condition of entering the Common Market...
...better propagandist than politician, it was a fool hardy Arab leader indeed who could ignore his warning; the sentiments are shared by a large part of the population. Trapped by their own propaganda, split once more into rival factions and disappointed in their Russian allies, the Arabs seem no closer to any form of negotiation with Israel than they were when the "six-day" war ended six weeks...
...political events, for joy. As fundamentalists who interpret the Bible literally, and who confidently await the second coming of the Lord, they are almost as enthusiastic as Zionists about Israel's victory over Egypt. For that, the Pentecostalists claim, is a sign that God's kingdom is closer than ever...
That nationwide state of anarchy already exists, but even Representative Colmer would never assert that professional agitators raced from city to city, setting riots ablaze in over 30 communities at the same time. Emanual Celler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was closer to the basic reason for rioting in the ghettos when he cited "the discontent of the Negro, his disenchantment as to promises made but not fulfilled, the dreary pace by which he achieves equality." This bill has served only to arouse more deeply such frustrations and rage, for it does not relate to the basic...