Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precisely those generalities [March 15]. He pledges to end the war, but talks of neither escalation nor negotiation; he promises peace in the Pacific, but gives us no clue as to a solution, an idea, or one single creative thought in that direction. He faults the Administration for urban violence, but comes up with not even a productive comment, let alone a panacea...
...experience, wrote Britain's Prince Charles, 19, in a maiden essay for the undergraduate newspaper Varsity-particularly at 7 a.m., when the "head-splitting clang" of garbage cans is "accompanied by the jovial dustman's monotonous refrain O Come, All Ye Faithful." After reading that, the Cambridge Urban District Council promptly rerouted Dustman Frank Clarke so that he appeared under the prince's windows at 9 a.m. rather than 7. "I am a bloke who likes to sing at his work," admitted Clarke. "But I think 7 o'clock is time enough for anyone...
...cope with the increasing number of Americans who sue to settle a dispute. Yet in the past five years, only 35 new district judgeships have been added to the existing 307 to deal with the greater work load. The result is anything but speedy trial-particularly in the large urban areas. "Insufferable backlogs are normal rather than the exception in many jurisdictions," the Chief Justice said recently. Last week he acted...
...urban Southern Baptist and Methodist congregations there is a growing spiritual sophistication about interpreting the Bible. But in country villages, among the fervent fundamentalist churchlets, the literal truth of God's word is an unalterable axiom. "Even the mention of Christ walking on water or Jonah being swallowed by a whale can quickly develop into an insoluble controversy if it is suggested that such miracles are symbolic," writes Caldwell. In one such back-country church recently, he says, the congregation became concerned when the minister neglected to specifically reaffirm from the pulpit that Christ was born of a virgin...
White "backlash" is an important new force in Wisconsin politics. The 1960 census listed 2.4 per cent of the state's population as "non-white." Over 80 per cent of this group is Negro, with 15 per cent Menomonie Indian. Non-whites make up 3.2 per cent of urban areas and 6.7 per cent of central cities. Since 70,000 of the state's Negroes live in such cities, and only 5,000 in the rest of the state, the race issue has not yet confronted many Wisconsinites. One-tenth of the counties have no significant Negro population...