Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when every slum is gone from every city in America, and America is beautiful. It's the time when man gains full dominion under God over his own destiny. It's the time of peace on earth and good will among men." In Los Angeles, where tinsel dreams are mass-produced, Lyndon sounded every bit as Utopian. "We are going to have to rebuild our cities," he said. "We are going to have to reshape our mass transit facilities. We have to purify our air and to desalt our oceans. We are going to make...
Death at the Heart. Professional critics such as Lewis Mumford have long warned that the U.S. city in general had something more than a slight case of congestion and aching joints. But most people thought of the problem only in terms of slum clearance and better housing for the poor?a worthy but not exhilarating objective. Only gradually did it become clear that the sickness of the cities was a kind of heart disease; they have been dying at the center, where the great stores and great buildings and great enterprises are supposed to be. The suburban sprawl, in leeching...
...program that the University might seek to enter entails remedial-education classes, pre-school clinics, slum clearance, and work training. Over 250 cities, counties, and private groups have already requested funds for such activities...
...less privileged in our own or in other societies. A student may feel that the multiversity has become too big and impersonal and may not always be prepared to study a subject in the sequences and hierarchies organized by the sub-departments, and may find that helping a slum Negro youngster learn English or sitting with an abandoned patient in a mental hospital provides a feeling of personal relation and responsibility lacking in the curriculum. The Peace Corps or civil rights activity may provide similar compensation. Of course this is only a small minority of students, just as only...
...granted that you're an expert on it," he shouted back. Brown proved himself no expert on the subtleties of British economic life when he promised that Labor would cut mortgage rates to a ludicrously low 3% from their present 6% levels, which might appeal to house-hungry slum dwellers, but which to most informed Britons would merely sound like confirmation of Sir Alec's allegation that the Labor economic program was a "menu without prices." Harold Wilson committed a gaffe of his own, charging a "Tory plot" behind a strike at the Hardy Spicer factories that threatens...