Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...briefly quiescent after the shocks and divisions of 1968. But it is also somber and unsure; the vexing dilemmas of Viet Nam, racial tension and urban disintegration all remain unresolved. There is a vacuum in the nation's leadership, and once Richard Milhous Nixon takes the oath of office next week to become the 37th President of the U.S., there will not be much time before he must act to fill it. Still, like most of his predecessors, he starts his term with the good will and high expectations of his fellow citizens. A Louis Harris poll released last...
Involvement or Decline. In a section dealing with the confrontation between the university and the community at large, Kevin White, mayor of Boston, takes on those who oppose university involvement in urban problems. The cities must not be permitted to deteriorate, says White, because "the city and its academic institutions will either grow together or decline together...
...Hechinger, education editor of the New York Times, argues convincingly that students seeking to make their college education more relevant have chosen the wrong target. Faculties, not administrators, he says, are to blame for the neglect of undergraduate teaching, for overemphasis on science and for the indifference of some urban universities to their ghetto neighbors...
...Jules Feiffer cartoon is an act of aggression camouflaged by humor. Feiffer is a satirical sniper who drills lethal little holes in the feverish body politic. In security, hostility, urban hysteria are both his targets and his weapons, and all his cartoons are Little Murders, as he has titled his first full-length play...
Cosmopolis is John Secondari's attempt to assay the urban crisis, and it is so successful that it manages to transform TV journalism into art. Editing shots of teeming Tokyo and sprawling Los Angeles so that they follow one another with a kind of rhythm, the producer-writer-narrator never lets his visiting experts stay on camera too long. Instead, Secondari uses the visual part of his program to show what the architects' voices are talking about. There after, he juxtaposes imaginative plans for cities of the future with the rot now growing at the cities' hearts...