Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 100 mayors met in Chicago and asked that the incoming President set a "national tone of concern for urban America." They drew up an expensive shopping list: more jobs in cities, more federal aid, emergency antirecession programs, low-interest loans for both local governments and private businesses. The Governors of seven Northeastern states, who argue that Washington is shortchanging them in favor of the Sunbelt states, were expected to meet and make some costly demands of their...
...from the past to an even less promising future is portrayed in harsh, space language. The "Village Market" with its "sun, emaciated donkeys, flies...' is replaced in a "False Step" by the alienation of the city. "Here there is nothing I know/And nothing that knows me," says the recent urban immigrant arriving in weather as bitter as his mood. This theme of inexorable dislocation runs through a number of the poems. In "Flower Seller" Najafi realizes that"...the farthest limit of my voyage I reach after passing beyond all bounds." An artist recognizes a similar dilemma in "The Birth...
Students participating in RHAP said Monday that the internships provide an opportunity for people to "see what medicine is really about" by getting away from the impersonal type of medicine often practiced in an urban community...
Once the mainstay of the coalition, white Catholics this year gave Ford just over half their vote. Although Carter's religion and his abortion stand influenced some, busing and school desegregation, which have stirred anti-black sentiment in many Catholic urban neighborhoods, may be the biggest factor in the continuing drift toward the G.O.P. For example, despite Carter's determined efforts to woo Italian votes ("I think it's a shame that someone of Italian background has never been appointed to the Supreme Court"), more than 55% of the Italian vote went to Ford. In the 24th...
MAYBE HOROVITZ'S PLAY qualifies as social realism, exposes the plight of urban youth, lays a slice-of-life on you--pick one of the above and man your stations, please. Your assignments should be pretty clear: each critic prises a skein of dialogue from the script and analyzes its relevance from the vantage of the ideological crow's nest he has shimmied into...