Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Likely topics for discussion include the controversial school appointment issue, urban renewal, and pay raises for city employees...
...concerned with the growing power of communications over the American mind, just as we are concerned with the evidences of creeping conformity. America, however, can no longer be an atomistic society; it is an urban, industrial nation subject to all the intellectual dangers of the levelling process. In its politics, these dangers are becoming increasingly evident...
...poor living conditions and urban renewal problems are not the sole determinants of Cambridge delinquency. A glance at the neighborhood of East Cambridge proves that. It, too, has low income families. It has fairly poor housing, and has a greater percentage of dwelling units without central heating than any of the problem areas mentioned above. It is overcrowded, and is an island completely surrounded by industry. Yet for some reason it has a relatively low rate of delinquency...
...metal-sheathed monolith for Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co.; 3) got the designs for a $15 million, 800-room, new Hilton Hotel. Said Hotelman Conrad Hilton: "We have heard about the renaissance of Pittsburgh. We like to go into a live city. Many communities just talk about urban redevelopment. Pittsburgh has accomplished what it talked about...
...writers of these 15 short stories have several things in common. They are middle-aged (ranging from 41 to 48) and have thus been exposed to two world wars and a depression. They are Northerners, so their theme is largely urban frustration instead of the fashionable Southern predilection for rural decay. And like most contemporary short-story writers, they are at their best when remembering their childhood. The exception to this rule is Brooklynite Daniel Fuchs, who here ignores adolescence and is the only one of the four to deal with the excitements of earning a living...