Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential campaign ever quite achieves the ideal of a pure exercise in national enlightenment. Still, 1968's contest thus far falls alarmingly short of the ideal. By design or sheer ineptitude, the issues of Viet Nam, urban reconstruction and racial reconciliation are being clouded rather than clarified. The times call for a high order of statesmanship; yet Nixon comes on like an artful dodger and Humphrey like an artless bungler. Whether the two can shake off those images in the seven weeks before Election Day is becoming the key question of a disappointing campaign...
...have probably been too busy and involved to riot. With money from the Government, foundations, churches and private companies, they have opened their own stores, mounted clean-up and paint-up campaigns, and organized recreational centers. Through programs sponsored by the Government, the National Alliance of Businessmen and the Urban Coalition, summer jobs were provided for 821,000 young people, most of them Negroes...
...Nice, Malraux ordered that work on a new luxury apartment building be delayed to give archaeologists a chance to probe the remnants of a prehistoric village unearthed on the site. Last year he halted construction of an important urban-renewal project in downtown Marseille and unleashed the archaeologists when power shovels uncovered massive fortifications built by Greeks during the 6th century B.C. Malraux has now struck again, using his influence to prevent the Rhône River town of Vienne from building a secondary school over what may well be the most important Roman ruins ever discovered in France...
Record-breaking car sales are certainly no cause for celebration by the urban motorist of any country. When he must park, his choices remain-as ever-a scarce spot on the street (where the car may be towed away), a tight little space on a self-service lot (where he is likely to bang up his fenders trying to get in or out), or a garage (where a slam-bang attendant will take care of the fender smashing). At long last, a few entrepreneurs have begun approaching parking on the premise that it ought to be carried out with...
Good questions, but the answers are hard to come by. Does the fault lie with strict parents or permissive teachers? Urban tensions or too much affluence? Last week Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa of San Francisco State College suggested that the answer to so much disaffection among the young is television. TV, said Hayakawa, addressing the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in his home town, is a "powerful sorcerer." It can bewitch children into becoming alienated and rebellious dropouts or even drug addicts. "Parents and relatives and teachers may talk to them, but the children find them sometimes censorious...