Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY is a black panther of a play, stalking the off-Broadway stage as if it were an urban jungle, snarling and clawing with uninhibited fury at the contemporary fabric of black-white and black-black relationships. If the characters of Playwright Charles Gordone are not quite solidly realized, their sentiments most emphatically are. Gordone is too honest an author to lie about a bright brotherly tomorrow just over the horizon, but in thunder and in laughter he tells the racial truth of today...
...load the nation's largest industry with archaic and inefficient methods of operation. As a result, construction costs are climbing so swiftly that they are complicating Washington's struggles to increase the supply of housing and restrain inflation. Last week George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, challenged construction-union leaders to adopt reforms. His candor was greeted with boos, jeers and catcalls...
Nixon suggested that the dividend be split between a tax reduction and social programs, particularly aid to education. Before he joined the Administration, Economic Adviser Stein headed a Committee for Economic Development group that proposed spending most of the money to alleviate urban, racial and poverty problems. The group also recommended cutting the basic corporate income tax back to 38%, down from the "temporary" Korean War rate of 48%. In any case, debate over the peace dividend should lead to a valuable new appraisal of the nation's priorities-and its fresh opportunities...
THIS IS NOT to say that firefighters should be driven out of business, but only that a less anthropocentric view of natural fires should be taken. At the moment, urban man imposes his personal search for order an nature and tries to bridle all natural processes. Man finds something unclean, uneconomical, and therefore unnatural about natural fires...
Since this reasoning is generally true in the city, Smokey Bear has found it very easy to convince us that it is also true in the woods. We easily extrapolate our urban attitudes towards large fires to wilderness situations. After all, forest fires cause air and water pollution; they destroy timber and wildlife and threaten human beings...