Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hickel defended his program of "Parks to the People" several times as one step toward improving the urban environment. The plan provides Federal money to create "pocket parks" and pedestrian malls in urban downtown...
...shunned blunt talk when addressing white banquets nor donned a dashiki to convince his fellow blacks that he had soul. He was always an individual, difficult to classify. Young's special strength, notes a black journalist, was that "he was urbane enough to talk with the fat cats downtown and hip enough to talk with the tough cats uptown and he never seemed out of place doing either." Indeed, even some of the most bitter black spokesmen came to warmly appreciate Young. When informed of his death, Poet and Playwright Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) wept. "There...
...colonial home in New Rochelle, a New York suburb. But as his commuter train rolled through Harlem each workday, Young was troubled. "Should I get off this train this morning and stand on 125th Street cussing Whitey to show I am tough?" he once mused. "Or should I go downtown and talk to an executive of General Motors about 2,000 jobs for unemployed blacks?" Young, a civil rights leader who was interested above all in results, remained on the train...
Blitzstein, who taught at the Downtown School in New York during the thirties with none other than Elie Siegmeister and Hans Eisler as colleagues, inspired Lehrman to take a new look at Brecht's 1948 didactic play about the Paris Commune-or, more precisely, Blitzstein with an interpretational gloss thrown on his work by Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein in 1940 presented a production at Sanders of Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock. Bernstein adopted a "cantata form, from the piano." Lehrman, himself the director of a 1969 Cradle Will Rock production, explained in a 1970 essay about Blitzstein. This is "exactly...
Much of the Rockwellian ambience is deceptive, however. The downtown mall area contains the local headquarters of the Office of Economic Opportunity's neighborhood action program, which is pressing for low-cost housing over old-line opposition. On the 1st and 15th of every month, long sad queues of weary mothers and scraggly children stand on the street all day to collect food stamps. The young are displaced persons in El Monte. "There is nothing to do here," says good-looking Tina Chassi, 25. "If I go out on a date, we go out of town...