Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spirit of the American South is an outgrowth of the trauma experienced by the U.S. in the '60s and early '70s. Long the nation's moral whipping boy, the South gained its amnesty during a period of racial tension, assassination, war, urban unrest, youthful alienation and political misconduct that left no American unaffected...
...sound like the wicked witch of the West Side, implying she was guilty of "demagoguery and hypocrisy" for proclaiming her support of Israel while not voting for U.S. defense funds. When Abzug refused at first to say she would endorse Moynihan if he won, the former Harvard professor of urban politics inveighed that she was a zealot who believed in the politics of "rule or ruin...
...African capital of Pretoria late last week on the third stop of his latest effort at shuttle diplomacy. All week long sporadic rioting had continued in the nonwhite townships around Johannesburg and Cape Town, and a department store in downtown Johannesburg was fire-bombed-the first such act of urban terrorism in the country's history. Shortly before Kissinger's blue and white 707 touched down, police fired at demonstrators in Johannesburg's Soweto township, killing six students and wounding 35. In no time, rumors were circulating in London, New York and elsewhere that the Secretary...
...intrigued me greatly, for there had been a publicly visible change in the socio-cultural attitudes toward women." Hill has rejected the easy explanation for this change--that it is a derivative of women's liberation--explaining that Gloria Steinem's influence was felt most strongly among urban women, and almost not at all by their rural counterparts. And for Hill the question remains as important today as it was two years...
...current number also features a debate on the development of alternative technology, dealing with questions such as whether making available innovative, inexpensive technology to the urban unemployed may actually ease the burden on the present capitalist system, which SftP views as inherently corrupt. In the issue, Fred Gordon '66, SftP staff man in charge of magazine production, asserts that high unemployment results partly because orthodox capitalist technology requires something like $100,000 in capital investments to create each new factory...