Word: urban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bender has little interest with college towns, which are ultimately dismissed as the 99-pound-weaklings of urban America. The heart of the book, rather, is a discussion of the three major schools in New York--the elite Columbia (founded in 1754 as Kings College), the alternative New York University (founded in 1831), and the public City College (founded in 1866)--and how each tried to balance the academy against the unavoidable democratic influences of the city around...
...until January of this year that the National Urban League addressed the problem in a report on AIDS and American blacks by Dr. Beny J. Primm, executive director of Brooklyn's Addiction Research and Treatment Corp. Primm is furious about the foot dragging and denial among blacks. "There is a complacency," he charges, "and perhaps a fear of being called a racist if they point the finger at their own. Better to be called racist now than conspiratorially genocidal five years from...
Among those working hardest to contain the spread of AIDS in the urban ghettos, there is often a sense of despair. Drug addicts are tough subjects for reform. "We need to stop the recruitment of young people into IV drug use in the first place," says Don Des Jarlais, of the New York State division of substance abuse services. Working with youths who are sniffing but not yet injecting heroin, Des Jarlais says, "We get them thinking about AIDS and what to do to prevent themselves from becoming exposed...
...mystery, thriller, police or spy story are presumed to have long since made their peace with the printer's devil. In fact, however, the ranks of crime writers are as beleaguered as any other by the need for compromise. The battle rarely focuses on setting, which may be urban or rural, domestic or foreign, modern or ancient, or on subject matter, for which these days the rule seems to be the kinkier the better. The clash comes instead over format. Most writers seem to prefer one-shot stories, as full of catharsis as a classic tragedy, while publishers -- and readers...
...every way but one, it was the sort of spasm of urban violence that gets a glancing, one-shot story in the local papers. On a steamy June night in 1985, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a white plainclothes policeman shot and killed a young black man named Edmund Perry. The cop said Perry and another man had assaulted and attempted to rob him. But Eddie Perry was no down-and- out hood. Only days before, he had graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the nation's most exclusive prep schools. He would have entered Stanford...