Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stokes, 41, who had been boosted by Cleveland's press and industry, last May persuaded the private sector to ante up $10 million, primarily for housing and unemployment programs. That seed money for a much-touted "Cleveland: NOW!" effort has already sprouted more than $100 million in massive aid from federal matching fund programs. It has found jobs for 5,900 hardcore unemployed-more than a fourth of the city's total-and disbursed $500,000 to help black businessmen get started. It will create 4,600 new housing units by the end of next year...
...political maneuverings of other institutions. This collusion between universities, business, and government--which places the same corporate elite in charge of everything--cannot be ended solely by internal change within the universities. Such change, which would proceed from the acquiescence of the university officials, would be only an effort at pacification, and no change...
...worried about violence and disorder. Borrowing from Emile Durkheim, and more particularly from the conservative American sociologist Robert A. Nisbet, Moynihan argues that the central problem of modern civilization is to overcome the atomization of society into disoriented individuals through the conscious strengthening of groups and group norms. This effort--Nisbet's "quest for community"--is in Moynihan's view the origin of lower middle-class "reaction' to lower-class violence, which is seen as disorienting, destabilizing, and therefore frightening...
Watson--who chaired the meeting in place of Dean Gerald Robinson of the University of Pennsylvania, the official chairman--explained the change as an effort to enforce more strictly the existing ECAC regulations...
...nothing came of these informal contacts. Harvard reportedly insisted that Radcliffe make a greater effort to bolster its shaky financial status, and Radcliffe was not over-eager to dissolve into a division of the larger University...