Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just looked like too exciting a thing not to do even though I had mixed feelings about leaving Harvard now or at any time." In recent years, the $70 million fund, which is one of the nation's two largest community foundations, has concentrated on supporting projects to attack urban problems-a trend Glimp said he plans to continue...
...false sense of neutrality were ever possible, it is no longer so in an era of intense community and neighborhood self-awareness. Through elected and self-appointed leaders, by petition and by protest, singly and collectively, the citizens of our urban environment expect the university to act as a responsible and enlightened landlord, employer and neighbor. Little more than a legitimate concern for its own self-interest will lead the university to reflect seriously and act positively on the obligations of its urban citizenship...
...helps to have gone to one of the progressive private schools, where standards are predominantly individualistic and intellectual, rather than social. (With girls' schools these are more easily distinguished than with boys.) And it is useful to have lived in a college town, a foreign country, or a sophisticated urban community; to have applied to a very small number of progressive and stiff colleges, like Swarthmore, Sarah Lawrence, Oberlin, and so forth...
...cope with the pressure of new people, U Thant said, advance planning for cities is imperative. At least 5% of national income should be allocated to housing and urban development. Local construction industries should quickly be strengthened, savings institutions established, and research centers created to study specific urban problems. Beyond the particular effort of every nation, there must be international cooperation. The richer nations should aid developing nations with at least $1 billion in seed money annually. Nations should also get together to set up training centers for personnel and to pool social and technical information...
...report provides a unique global view of a depressing, but neglected and far-reaching subject. We are all in the same boat, it says in effect, and the boat is foundering. It also stitches together various urban experiments from nations of differing political persuasions to form a patchwork solution. Most important, U Thant's report offers, along with extremely pessimistic statistics about the present, an infectious optimism about the future-if nations can learn to cooperate...