Word: urban
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Luckily, I have less lofty goals. Urban exploration, I’ve found, is best done on foot...
...rose to become publisher of the magazine. As chairman of Time Inc. he oversaw the closing of Life and the creation of People magazine. After retiring in 1980, Heiskell raised hundreds of millions of dollars for libraries as chairman of the New York Public Library's trustees, and promoted urban renewal in blighted areas of New York City as head of the Enterprise Foundation's advisory board...
...think students are remaining calm and taking the kind of precautions we’ve already recommended,” he said. “Larceny is always a problem at urban universities...
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us. George Washington's colleagues found it hard to imagine touching the austere general on the shoulder, and we would find it even more so today. Jefferson and Adams are just as intimidating. But Ben Franklin, that genial urban entrepreneur, seems made of flesh rather than of marble, addressable by nickname, and he turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind those newfangled spectacles. He speaks to us, through his letters and hoaxes and autobiography, not with orotund rhetoric but with a chattiness and clever irony...
...1970s his interest in urban problems led him to chair the New York Urban Coalition and the National Urban Coalition, according to his son Trip Rothschild ’76, who is also a Crimson editor...