Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.Y.U., located in Greenwich Village, is putting its experts to work helping neighborhood artists and actors, creating smokeless incinerators, improving slum schools, and studying New York's complex fiscal situation. Columbia has contributed heavily to the redevelopment of Manhattan's Morningside Heights, including helping to hire private patrolmen for the crime-ridden area around the school; graduate students of its School of Architecture have worked out a beautification project involving the Hudson River waterfront between Yonkers and Peekskill...
GUMMIDGE: Exactly. If you are poor, I refer to you as disadvantaged; if you live in a slum, you are in a culturally deprived environment...
...that accompanied the demonstration projects funded by the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, established in 1961. As few programs in the history of American government, this one set out consciously and openly to test a set of hypotheses about the nature of deviant behavior in slum neighborhoods. It was a physiocrat's dream and attracted great attention in the press and in university circles...
...imperious, exclaiming "I am the mayor!" or "Didn't you come prepared?" His disdain for established procedure puts down bureaucrats and raises hackles, but it gets things done; when he found that it would take months to appropriate a few thousand dollars to install fire-hydrant sprinklers in slum neighborhoods, he personally raised the money among friends. During that potentially explosive summer, Lindsay's in-the-street efforts in the face of incipient racial violence helped keep the slums much cooler than they would otherwise have been...
...they are anthropologists or psychologists or sociologists they look to the military and the draft as one last chance of saving drop-outs, cop-outs and freak-outs; as a way of up-setting the habits and responses of slum life. They want some form of national service, involving as many people as possible...