Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against these uncertain advances must be stacked their price for black community and urban social stability. Confrontations may have radicalized blacks, but they have also deprived black children of weeks an months of schooling. The King school in Roxbury was closed down for most of November and December after rioting students repeatedly provoked police occupation of their school. New York City has never been closer to anarchy than it was during last fall's teacher strike, and white reaction to the strike seems likely to doom meaningful action in the New York legislature on the community control question. The combined...
Lunn, a member of the M.I.T. corporation, and Livernash are both long-time members of the five-man Authority. They came under fire for their university connections and for the fact that neither lives in an area affected by urban renewal. "One represents Harvard and the other M.I.T.," said Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci...
There is no reason to doubt the official explanation of the new format--that it was fixed upon to avoid the embarrassment of small crowds and the discomfort of speaking into blinding television lights at Sanders Theater. Gardner, a busy man these days at the Urban Coalition, reportedly wanted a time-saving method of giving the lectures and television provided that too. At the same time, though, one can easily guess what the response of a normal group of Harvard students and Faculty would have been to Gardner's comparison of Marcuse's disciples to the businessmen who supported Hitler...
...dean, Bender instituted the Allston Burr Senior Tutors program, promoted the tutorial system in the Houses, and expanded the scholarship program for students in inner urban areas...
...occupies a secure place among today's leading folk poets. Her evanescent tunes and lyrics primarily evoke moods, emotions and changes of scenery, instead of proclaiming social messages of political protest. They are songs about love or about a country girl's cool-eyed reaction to urban life. I Had a King is a poetic description of her broken marriage...