Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everybody at Harvard was surprised. James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, and Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, agreed that the results were predictable. "Every local or state official wants to have a good reason for asking for more federal money for various programs," Banfield said. "Whatever Mayor Lindsay's prior convictions, he needs more federal money." Furthermore,, Banfield said, "it would be impossible for an official to tell his Negro community that the cause of riots are other than racial injustice...
This list would further include James Rosenthal, associate of both the Joint Center for Urban Studies and of the Kennedy Institute and general editor of the Riot Report, James Vorenberg '48, professor of Law and author of the President's Crime Commission Report, Abram J. Chayes '43, professor of Law and author of the Report's chapter on the mass media, and Maurice D. Kilbridge, professor of Business Administration...
Nevertheless, like Daniel P. Moynihan, director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, Handlin feels that the wrong answers might just lead to the right solutions. They are unwilling to jeopardize this possibility...
...true or not it is not bad to tell white America that it is bad to be racially prejudiced. They feel that white people may then be led to do things which are intended to right the wrong but,," Ban-intended to right the wrong. But," Banfield said, "citing Urban Renewal as an example, "their actions may have bad practical effects...
...Urban Renewal Program based on many good intentions and little real knowledge, was hailed as a great liberal measure, Banfield said. According to many Negro leaders it has actually hurt the poor. Slums are razed, only to give way to middle-income housing which leaves the former occupants homeless...