Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grab-Bag Families. The statement of one urban housewife reflects the city's blurring of denominational lines: "'My first change was from the Catholic church to an Episcopal . . . because there was no Catholic church in the community . . . My husband was formerly Presbyterian. When we moved to M we wanted to go to some church and we simply started walking down the street till we came to one. It turned out to be the Lutheran church. We ... finally joined and we like it very much . . . Our children have been baptized in the Lutheran church...
...entire industrial plant of the South was thus brought to a standstill. Cities soon had no products to exchange with the farmers for food, and the result has been an ever-increasing urban black-market in agricultural products...
...women took the family wash and their gossip to "Launderettes," which became a modern urban equivalent to the village well; they flocked to quiz programs where prizes reached a frenetic peak of absurdity. The world learned officially that man had flown faster than sound. In sport, the athlete of the year was a horse; Citation won everything worth winning, was probably the greatest horse of all time. Television became an accepted part of U.S. life...
...year and a half ago and contains a broader program. It includes the 500,000 units for low income groups of the old bill, but increases the total program to provide 300,000 units for the $2100-$3600 bracket. It also extends the planning and research title to coordinate urban decentralization for defense and use of vacant land rather than slum clearance when the shortage is so severe...
...Nightmare." Mumford had dared to criticize Moses' pride & joy, the enormous Stuyvesant Town development of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., whose 24,000 tenants will form a community larger than all but 400 other U.S. cities. Mumford pronounced Stuyvesant Town "a caricature of urban rebuilding . . . considering all the benefits it might have derived from beginning at scratch, on a site as large as this." Snorted he: "As things go nowadays one has only a choice of nightmares. Shall it be the old, careless urban nightmare of post-Civil War New York ... or shall it be the new nightmare...