Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation Sukarno precariously governed was precariously split politically. There are four major and nearly equal parties: 1) the Nationalists, created by Sukarno and sustained by a horde of underpaid government bureaucrats; 2) Masjumi, a Moslem party of small traders and urban businessmen with a pronounced Western outlook; 3) the Orthodox Scholars, a village-based and deeply conservative Moslem group dominated by religious teachers; 4) the Communists...
...like many another city, Philadelphia in its ambitious urban-renewal program (e.g., rehabilitation of downtown shops, banks, hotels; 14-acre Penn Center replacing the dowdy Broad St. railroad station) is faced with a shaky question mark that cannot be erased with just so many tons of steel and concrete. It is a human problem: more and more of Philadelphia's white families are moving out of the city, leaving behind a growing population of low-income Negro families. And the problem of balancing the population becomes more and more difficult because the Negroes are blocked from moving...
...eliminate the slums, lure back the whites and break the white noose, Dilworth will be the first mayor to solve an urban problem vexing most major northern cities. Philadelphia Negroes are fully behind him. All he needs now is a good, heavy concentration of similarly dedicated whites. Says Dick Dilworth: "It's damned serious...
...Kerouac: "I wrote this book in three full-moon nights," and it reads that way. The details of the Leo-Mardou relationship are explicit and near pornographic. But The Subterraneans is not really about sex. It is about an oddball fringe of social misfits who conceive of themselves as "urban Thoreaus" in an existential state of passive resistance to society. "They are hip without being slick, they are intelligent without being corny, they are intellectual . . . without being pretentious or talking too much about it, they are very quiet...
...said that "while each student must make his personal decision as to the extent of his support, I wish to express my hope that all will respond generously and with a sense of pride that the Harvard student body can aid in this way both the community and the urban area in which we all live...