Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fabric of Columbia was twisted and torn by the forces of political and social revolution outside the University. Columbia's geographic situation symbolzes the relation between white and black, affluence and poverty, youthful reform and established order. The University's need for physical expansion in an urban center creates inescapable tensions but its relations with the community had further deteriorated because of its apparent indifference to the needs and aspirations of its poorer neighbors. The handling of the gymnasium controversy thus came, even somewhat unfairly, to epitomize the conflict between the spirit of the civil rights movement and the attack...
...POPULATION PROBLEM. "Brazil-The Gathering Millions." This documentary traces the migration of farm workers from Brazil's hinterlands, where work is scarce, to urban areas where for some there is nothing but further despair. First in a six-part series on the problems of overpopulation in the world...
...what they mean by the term, but the belief that law and order is being destroyed represents a trauma unmatched in intensity since the alarums generated by Joe McCarthy in the Korean era. The issue has virtually anesthetized the controversy over Viet Nam. It has distorted debate over pressing urban problems. It has perverted the presidential election, the closest thing in this secular republic to a sacred collective...
...Sociologist Jerome Skolnick argues that the rigid military model for police is out of date, suggests that civilian clothes with mere badges would bring policemen closer to their fellow citizens. According to Arnold Sagalyn, formerly a top Treasury Department lawman, police should quit being lonely adversaries and help tackle urban problems-thus preventing a good many crimes that now plague police. Berkeley Psychiatrist Bernard Diamond argues that police forces should also stop recruiting primarily tough men who can "shoot it out." As he sees it, the right model is a potential community-relations expert...
Galamison proposed that the teachers be given "one year fellowships in urban education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education." He said that the Ford Foundation had expressed interest in the idea, but had not promised to pay for the fellowships. Galamison introduced the plan at a meeting of the New York school board, the local board, and the teachers 'union...