Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plight of the nation's farmers, viewed from urban insularity, is generally seen as either a dull academic question or a potential trouble-maker in the November elections. Hucksters of both parties have made the "farm problem," a matter of narrow interest, using a flood of paper panaceas to obscure the real existence of a weak sector of the economy. Careless subsidy plans, log-rolling, and philosophical battle cries have replaced intelligent efforts to solve one of the nation's most important domestic problems...
...added that Cambridge up to now was not living up to the "serious problem of urban renewal," and that more effort should be made to make the Harvard area "a fit place for scholars, young and old, as well as students, married and unmarried...
After the war, he published The Age of Jackson, challenging the standard analysis of Jackson as the arch frontiersman, and reinterpreting the period with more emphasis on its intellectual values and the urban roots of its reform spirit. Though he is modest about the book's merits, it earned him a Pulitzer Prize for History at the age of twentyeight. Much of the book was written, a friend claims, with "one twin on each knee." Schlesinger still continues to do much of his work amid the clamor of his children, now increased to four...
Hitler Built More. Opposition leaders expected new repressive legislation, which would antagonize Istanbul's urban sophisticates but would insure Menderes' hold on the countryside. But though threatened, his opponents were not cowed. Snapped Osman Bolukbasi, leader of one opposition party, "Hitler built many times more dams, bridges and harbors than Mr. Menderes, and still Hitler fell...
Jane Jacobs, staff member of Architectural Forum, discussed the need for small "holes in the wall" as informal centers of an urban area...