Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...values to design, just as the School had assumed under Gropius in the '30's and '40's the leadership of an heroic period in architecture. One member stressed that American civilization depends on its cities and saw that the GSD can become a major resource in solving urban problems if it can actually implement its objectives as set forth in the catalog and in the Dean's Report and increase its concern for the socio-economic-political aspects of design...
Hailey tries valiantly to be topical. He astutely guessed that banks would get a lot of public attention this year, and he has been careful to include things like urban renewal, corporate bribery and women's liberation. The sum total of all this, and the source of much of Hailey's power, is an impression that this is American life as it is lived right now, in the highest and most glamorous and least known strata of power. The air of veracity that pervades his novels must have a lot to do with why they are so popular...
...Africa, a country which exports food worldwide, cases of disease due to malnutrition--kwashiorkor, rickets, etc.--are common, but only among blacks. In some areas in the Bantustans women and children can afford to eat only three times a week. (5) Four out of five African workers in the urban areas show signs of malnutrition...
Most VES students go on to careers in design, urban planning, and architecture, he said...
After Patty was captured, her signing into jail as an "urban guerrilla" and giving a clenched-fist salute were symptomatic of her condition. There is, said West, a kind of "hanging on for a few days until you're really sure you are not in dangerous territory...