Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they imprison the hater. Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist (Little, Brown; 246 pages; $22.95) is the story of a young man's attempt to break from his father's inflamed obsession with anti-Semitism and its central event of this century, Hitler's Final Solution. Edgy with irony and urban humor, the book also gives a rare insider's view of an insular Jewish community that is as alien to mainstream American Jewry as it is to the rest of the country...
Police and political insiders remain stumped after the Watergate-style burglary Saturday at the Manhattan campaign headquarters of GOP presidential hopeful Malcolm "Steve" Forbes. "We're treating it as a typical break-in, a regrettable fact of urban life," Forbes campaign spokeswoman Gretchen Morgenson assured the Associated Press. "Until we know otherwise, that's what we're going to assume it is." There is ample fodder for conspiracy theorists nonetheless. The perpetrators removed a fax machine and a copying machine, left a computer and printer on and rifled through computer disks with lists of prospective Forbes supporters...
...Urban Outfitters...
...century architecture firm whose works include the Harvard Club in New York City and the Boston Public Library. The planned destruction of the hall recalls the wanton destruction of the firm's greatest work, Pennsylvania Station in New York City in 1964. This monument fell victim to the disastrous urban "renewal" programs of the '50's and the '60's. The loss of Pennsylvania Station is now universally regretted. Yet the administration of our great university seems bent on committing a similar travesty...
...thing we will probably not have to endure is living in an urban ghetto or having our children go to school where there are more guns than pencils. The current trend our government is taking, however, is going to make the gap between those with the chance to attain "the pursuit of happiness" and those without it even larger. If welfare, Medicare, and other programs that favor the poor are cut, then the already large underclass will become even larger, and soon the only people who will have the opportunities that our forefathers wished for everyone will be members...