Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last revolution in America's city halls began in 1967 with the election of Carl Stokes as Cleveland's first black mayor. In the next two decades, hundreds of black mayors were swept into office by a tide of black pride, white-liberal optimism and the hope for an urban rebirth. As veterans of the civil-rights wars, these pioneering politicians saw themselves as crusaders for racial justice. For many voters, black and white, that was enough. As Jesse Jackson crowed after Harold Washington's 1983 triumph in Chicago, "Our time has come...
...gone. A generation after Stokes' breakthrough, black mayors are no longer a novelty, and the high hopes that their arrival would usher in a new era of urban revival have long since faded. Hobbled by age, ill health and ! frustration, three of the longest-serving black mayors -- L.A.'s Tom Bradley, Detroit's Coleman Young and Atlanta's Maynard Jackson -- have declined to seek re-election. Several cities where black mayors once reigned -- Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles -- have reverted to white control, and New York City may be about to join them. But the big turnover at city hall...
...delivering lofty speeches. Unlike earlier mayors who carried the combative style of the civil-rights movement into office, the new breed tends to be hands-on managers and conciliators who served long apprenticeships on city councils and in business. They tend to seek private-sector solutions to long- festering urban woes instead of advocating big programs from Washington. As Minneapolis Mayor Donald Fraser, who is stepping down after four terms, puts it, "pragmatism has pushed ideology out the window...
...Harvard alumnus concerned over his daughter's health at 29 Garden Street, his energy would be better spent in making sure his daughter avoids, at all costs, cigarette smokers, motorcyclists, urban indoor environments and Colorado vacations. Lawrence G. Cetrulo
...working to combine [the National Institutes of Health and Housing and Urban Development]," she said. "So often they're dealing with the same population...We're just trying to get everyone to sit in the sameroom...