Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress is moving in the direction of handing out $5 billion of mortgage insuring authority for the rest of this fiscal year, $5 billion for next. Nearly dead too, is Ike's idea of cutting out public housing authorizations, of raising the local share of land costs in urban renewal. Democratic housing leaders last week predicted: 1) authorization of 17,500 more public housing units, 2) a six-year, $350 million-a-year urban renewal program, with the Federal Government still paying two-thirds of the cost instead of the gradual reduction to 50% asked...
...inquiry into American life ("The subject of how titles are arrived at is an amusing one for someone to go into some day; I had thirty minutes to make up my mind on this one, and fear the result sounds a little pompous.")--a view of contemporary culture and urban life in America. ("Urban life is all I really claim to know anything about.") Kronenberger is working on a follow-up along the same lines "if I can find enough to say that is really new, and not just repetition...
Conant's claim that "comprehensive schools" should replace technical or specialized schools applies only to non-urban areas, according to McCabe. "In the city there are enough students for technical schools like Rindge, and there is a need for specialization within comprehensive schools...
Miss Grable's ephiphany occurs on a snow-covered Maine hillside, where she makes her rebellion against the values of the organization man and of urban culture. She finds her true essence in returning to Nature, "to the woods," in the tradition of Thoreau and John Muir...
...profits scandals, promised that "we're going to live in a goldfish bowl from now on." He was as good as his word. Mason cleaned up the FHA, went on to speed up and expand its loan program, started a housing program for old folks, worked hard for urban renewal and better quality houses for home buyers...