Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Others receiving degrees at Commencement exercises today were Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Pedro Gerardo Beltran, publisher of La Prensa in Lima, Peru; Livingston T. Merchant, U. S. career diplomat; J. E. Wallace Sterling, retiring president of Stanford University; and two scientists--Nobel laureate Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin and geneticist-chemist Marshall W. Nirenberg...
Whitney M. Young Jr. has been executive director of the National Urban League since 1961. He is the author of To Be Equal (1964) and other studies of Negro problems. Considered a moderate on civil rights questions, Young has been warning lately that the return of a mass of Vietnam veterans who are used to violence could cause trouble in America unless something is done fast domestically...
...NAME, the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard suggests an academic storehouse of expertise on ghetto problems. But the Center has from its inception been unwilling, or unable, or unsuited--depending on whom you talk to--to "do anything" in Roxbury...
Unwilling--because, members point out, the Center has always been academic in intent, avoiding political or community entanglements. It functions simply to find scholarly research on an individual basis. (The Center, that is, serves an "umbrella function" for armchair urban scholars...
When the Center was set up between Harvard and MIT on a Ford Foundation grant in 1959, it was deliberately geared toward academic, scholarly, detached urban research...