Word: moynihan
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Whatever the level of federal bil lions, the U.S. is going to need the kind of overview offered by urbanologists like Moynihan if its cities are to survive and thrive. Last spring, Rhode Island's Providence College awarded Moynihan an honorary degree that was accompanied by a particularly apt citation: "You have dared to throw light on some of the most frightening problems facing urban dwellers, not to elicit common agreement with your solutions so much as to force us to look where we would rather not." Moynihan and the other urbanologists may not have all the answers...
Many Hats. "All the things we've tried to help the cities with aren't working out very well, are they?" asks Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 40, a former Assistant Secretary of Labor and currently the most controversial of urban-affairs analysts. The question may sound over jaunty, but in fact it reflects the chief preoccupation of Pat Moynihan's life and the central domestic issue, one that is increasingly engaging the nation's intellectual community...
Across the country, more and more universities are setting up centers for urban studies. Founded in 1959, the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, which Moynihan heads, is the most creative of the nation's new centers, † At Harvard, a course in urban problems that was introduced only in 1964 is now among the top three in popularity among undergraduates. At Chicago, graduate students, who once showed little interest in slum problems, are becoming urban specialists by studying the pathology of urban life...
...Moynihan himself is a historian by training (Ph.D., Tufts, '61), sociologist by bent, politician by inclination, and intellectual gadfly by design. He stirred a furor that has not yet subsided with a 1965 report on the disintegration of the Negro family. When he turned 40 last March, his Cambridge staff placed an array of hats on his desk with the note: "To the only man we know who could wear them all so well...
...until it is found, the cities will teeter on the brink of violence. That alchemical formula, of course, is the one that would transmute the ghettos from hostile enclaves-impoverished, ugly, seething with resentment-into integral, integrated parts of the cities. "For the present," says James Q. Wilson, Moynihan's predecessor at the Joint Center and now his right-hand man, "the urban Negro is, in a fundamental sense, the urban problem...