Word: mumford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others have been mentioned. Jane Jacobs, an astute urban gadfly (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), says New York should be divided into units of 100,000. A recent Royal Commission recommended reorganizing London into boroughs of about 200,000 (London already has limited decentralization). Author Lewis Mumford, one of the foremost students of the city, is more flexible. A "humanly lovable city," he says, "must range somewhere between 30,000 and 300,000 people...
...week or next, or the week after that. With luck, it will never break down entirely. Nonetheless, a nation that prides itself on pragmatism and problem-solving can afford only at its peril to ignore the immense-and immensely complex-challenge of making its cities habitable, enjoyable and governable. Mumford told a Senate committee last year, "Unless human needs and human interactions and human responses are the first consideration, the city, in any valid sense, cannot be said to exist. As Sophocles long ago said: The city is people...
Nomadic Editors. Every region of the U.S. produced its own magazines. In the Midwest, Midland (1915-33) published such indigenous authors as Paul Engle, Maxwell Anderson and Howard Mumford Jones. In California, a magazine sensibly titled Magazine (1933-35) printed Critics Yvor Winters and R. P. Blackmur. In Santa Fe, Laughing Horse (1921-39) celebrated the Southwest through the writing of such contributors as Upton Sinclair and Sherwood Anderson. Not all of the contributors by any means became well known; many of talent gave up, or turned to Hollywood or alcohol. "Some of the people now forgotten," says Robert Lowell...
...everyone complain about Britain's ailing economy, five pert and miniskirted typists at a factory in Surrey decided to do something about it. To help boost productivity and hold costs down, the girls-Valerie White, 21, Joan Southwell, 20, Christine French, 17, Carol Ann Fry, 16, and Brenda Mumford, 15-volunteered to work 30 minutes extra a day without any additional pay. In most countries such a gesture would have attracted scant attention. In Britain, whose economic difficulties stem as much as anything from an "I'm all right, Jack" attitude among its workers, the girls became heroines...
...Arts S-76, the History of the Cinema, which is attended by more than 200 people. Also drawing more than 200 students is Julian L. Moynihan's English S-163, Forms of Modern Fiction. And at 8 a.m. each morning about 160 students have gotten up to hear Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, lecture on the major American authors...