Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficulties of an Urban Renewal Program and the general decline of local conditions have highlighted a long-dormant problem for the University--its relationship to the national and local environment. Usually this problem is seen as a debate over left or right side parking in Cambridge or, on a slightly higher level, Harvard's responsibility for educating American youth...
...political motives is difficult to make. Stevenson and Eisenhower, by urging a moderate approach to the problem and by questioning the need for Federal action at this time, may be making as much of a play for the Southern vote as Harriman and Nixon are for the Northern urban vote. Motives aside, however, when Harriman condemed the President for taking the riots over Miss Lucy "so lightly," and when Nixon credited a great Republican Chief Justice with engineering the Supreme Court decision, the two Presidential aspirants did both their parties and the progress of integration great disservice...
...Virgil T. produced was considerably more coherent than Four Saints in theme and form. The music is a distillation of rural American harmony--Mid-West gospel hymns, old English ballads brought by settlers, and corn-husking and square dance themes. This rural middle class tone, as opposed to the urban, low-class music of jazz and other contemporary American opera, makes the work distinctive. In its new lyric quality is a dissonance and irony which Four Saints, in all its tour de force, does not capture...
Despite the opposition that the consolidation and slum clearance projects will evoke, Urban Renewal seems the best, and perhaps the only answer to Cambridge's long range problems, the greatest of which is the steady decline in population over the last few decades. By consolidating business and industrial sections, raising and enforcing housing standards, and clearing slums, Urban Renewal should go far toward stopping the local exodus of business and residents, solving the parking problem, and making Cambridge a more attractive city...
...Hall could ruin its chances. The responsibility right now is City Manager Curry's--it is up to him to appoint a man to get the program under way. While he should take sufficient time to find the right man for a tough job, it seems that if the Urban Renewal is to amount to anything, the time is about...