Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public service and launch public works programs to achieve that end. The goal is noble, and drew support from such witnesses as Bishop James Rausch of the U.S. Catholic Conference; Murray Finley, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; and Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson, speaking for the urban poor...
...design and audacious color, the blaring vermilion tree trunks, the complex blues in the caves of shadow, the pyrotechnics of green and yellow in the foliage. One moves into the work without strain; it is not an Arcadia, but a place well removed from the realities of industrial and urban Europe...
...these questions have something in common. They are asked-and answered-by a lively gaggle of publications known as city magazines, a diverse, eclectic and sometimes unruly group of enterprises to crowd under one rubric. But most, whatever else they do, aspire to be urban survival manuals, guiding their readers toward the best that city life has to offer while warning them away from its pitfalls and dangers. The genre is by and large prospering: while magazines in general lost advertising pages in 1975, city magazines as a group increased their ads by some 1,100 pages over...
...experience before starting Texas Monthly, gave up the idea of confining a magazine to Houston or Dallas because neither city seemed likely to provide a circulation of 100,000-the minimum he felt he needed to succeed. Instead, three years ago, he started a magazine that would appeal to urban dwellers anywhere in the state. "We like to think we're writing about things that never would have been written about if we hadn't been here," says Editor Broyles, a onetime writer for the British weekly Economist. He may well be right. Texas Monthly has boldly attacked...
Jewett attributed the rise in minority applicants to a recruiting drive he termed a "qualified success." Under the minority recruiting program initiated last fall, the admissions office singled out ten urban areas for intensified minority recruiting efforts, expanded alumni participation, and increased contact with community groups and student search organizations...