Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...momentous trip for mankind. For in gay, cosmopolitan, highly civilized Vienna the young German nationalist from the Alps suffered for the first time three new urban experiences that profoundly influenced his future: the slum proletariat, Social Democratic trade unions, Jews...
...enough, as Miss Barrymore was, to keep every hint of boy-meets-girl out of the teacher's moving relationship with the uncouth young miner who is her star pupil. Newcomer John Dall, as the miner, cares a lot for his role, but he is too urban and smooth to convey much power through it, once he gets the coal dust off his face. Another newcomer, Joan Lorring, as a hysterical little cockney slut who gets herself and the young man in trouble, mixes talent and overemphasis in about equal parts. Hit of the show: Rosalind Ivan, having herself...
Nazi Newsman Rudolf Sparing reported in an unprecedented, probably exaggerated and almost masochistic vein: "Allied air raids on Dresden . . . caused the greatest destruction a big urban area has ever suffered. . . . Catastrophe without parallel. Not a single . . . building remains intact or even capable of reconstruction. The town area is devoid of human life . . . wiped from the map of Europe...
...work in the Bureau of Urban Studies of the National Housing Administration in Washington, he has analyzed civic problems in many cities in preparation for the location of housing projects. He has designed many Boston buildings and written extensively on architecture...
...appointment signalizes the renewal of a vigorous program in city planning in anticipation of enormous postwar needs in this field," Dean Hudnut said. "We are correlating in our program all the factors involved in urban problems, including the various economic, social, and physical conditions embodied in city life. After the war, city and regional planning will be a more important subject than ever before...