Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is today a worldwide crisis of the environment," says Overview's prospectus. "It stems from the extraordinary mass migration from rural to urban areas in all regions of the planet. It stems from a too rapid increase in population. It stems from helter-skelter urbanization in both the developed and underdeveloped nations. It stems from the abuse and misuse of the earth's resources. The Overview Group believes that the crisis of the environment is rooted in shortcomings-in failures of design, failures of planning, failures of politics...
While small towns generally welcome the bases as a boost to their economies, urban dwellers view the ABM more as a magnet to enemy missiles than as a defense against them. On Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, protests are financed by the sale of buttons reading "SCRAM!" -an acronym for Sentinel Cities Reject Anti-Missiles...
...African and Afro-American Association of Students and the Students for a Democratic Society attacked a projected Design School course "An End To Urban Violence" yesterday...
AFTER 1956 the focus went to the South and there came a fresh wave of sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and a decade of brushes with lynching and murder--all this possibly the heyday of CORE, nonviolence, and James Farmer. In those simpler days, before urban riots and black power, the Northern whites were all liberals and the Southern whites were all sheriffs. "One Mississippi officer I met," he recalls, "just couldn't bring himself to call me Mister Farmer. He tried, but he just couldn't. All that he could come out with was Mmmmm Farmer, Mmmmm Farmer...
...that equation." Nor does he believe it will take blacks very long to build up ethnic power though they have been in North America for over three centuries. "In one way, this is the first black generation in America. Or, I mean, it is the first black generation of urban dwellers. It is the first generation of urban dwellers. It is the first generation in which black awareness and pride could develop because of closer communication in the cities...