Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ensure that community action funds would reach the black poor in the South rather than their white overlords. whatever its origins, however, maximum feasible participation soon became the kingpin of a federal intervention in hundreds of American cities which was more or less effectively setting up centers of urban political power removed from City Hall...
...LARGE number of typographical errors in Daniel P. Moynihan's new study of the War on Poverty are any indication, the book was put out in quite a hurry. Since its publication roughly coincided with President Nixon's inauguration and Professor Moynihan's own installation as Nixon's urban advisor, it seems likely that Moynihan intends the book to serve as something of a theoretical preview of how he will approach...
While the theoretical foundations of community action appear to have been vastly different for its various backers, the prevalent theory holds that the poor--and particularly the black urban poor--are bound in their poverty by their political powerlessness, by their inability to deal effectively on their own behalf, or to influence the decisions which most directly concern them. Community action was seen in Washington during the early years of the War on Poverty as a means of correcting this political problem by creating organizations for the poor--organizations which would represent them and their interests in the struggles...
...depth of this monstrous injustice stem in part from their teaching and working in a 99 per cent white university -- an elite, businessman-banker-controlled university, at that. Nonetheless, the realities of American society are such that a course on George Wallace's favorite theme -- "An End to Urban Violence" -- might just provoke some sharply negative responses from the intended victims...
...resolution, introduced by Councillor Barbara W. Ackermann, drew the support of professors from M.I.T. and Harvard. Chester Hartman, assistant professor for City Planning and a member of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, told the Council that the system would make a target of Cambridge in any war where it otherwise might not be. He also cited the growing needs of the cities for federal funds, and said that the $5-6 billion estimated cost of the ABM would drain cities of needed funds...