Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Admissions officials--reacting to a 25 per cent decline in minority applications to Harvard over the past five years--this fall initiated a minority recruitment drive concentrating on ten urban areas...
Hardly a model politician. Yet when faculty members of the political-science and urban-studies departments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology scheduled a series of six programs on Curley, there was standing room only in a large campus lecture hall. Why? Students seemed to be drawn by the highly personalized politics that Curley symbolized-a far cry from what one participant described as "the lack of charisma, of wit and imagination, and of unpredictability in modern politics." Declared Boston Mayor Kevin White: "Charismatic leadership is hungered for, but at the same time we fear it." Should there be another...
...lead of Boston papers during the busing riots in September 1974, the Detroit press ordered reporters to play down antibusing protests and acts of violence. The Detroit News, a longtime foe of busing, even editorialized: "Let's not blow this chance to demonstrate that Detroit is an urban community where civility and tolerance survive...
...such case, perhaps, is that of Franziska Hosken, a designer and self-styled urban critic who claims she was refused a teaching appointment at the Graduate School of Design because of her sex. A Harvard Ph.D. in Architecture, Hosken had been trying to get a job at Harvard since the late sixties, although the GSD told her that it was not searching for anyone and that she did not qualify to teach in any of its departments. She applied for "a position" and was refused so many times that Dean Maurice Kilbridge said he would no longer answer her inquiries...
...life. Although Moynihan clearly attributed that instability to more than two centuries of racial oppression, several black leaders took offense at his use of terms like "tangle of pathology" to describe the Negro family. Shortly afterward, Moynihan left his job at Labor. His stint as director of Nixon's Urban Affairs Council ended a year after his memo urging a period of "benign neglect" of the racial issue was leaked to the press in 1970. Moynihan still bristles at what he regards as widespread misinterpretation of that phrase. It did not, he insists, refer to less Government attention to civil...