Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What do people mean when they say that American civilization is urban and that nine-tenths of the population is concentrated in the cities? It is necessary to see and know these cities, populated with squirrels and rabbits as well as men, in which almost all houses are of wood, scattered amid trees and green lawns. Cities that have no walls or gates and have never had any, cities whose right-angled streets disclose the absence of an urban tradition...
...months before his nomination. In the week of Jan. 20, Stevenson burst into bloom. That week: 1) Truman called Stevenson to Washington, offered to support him for the presidency; 2) Stevenson appeared on TIME'S cover; 3) he made a good speech in New York to the National Urban League. The New York Times's Arthur Krock called it "Stevenson Week." In spite of this, and much subsequent publicity, Stevenson trailed far behind Kefauver and Eisenhower (but 1% ahead of Taft) in Gallup polls. Last week a lot of people were still asking, "Who's Stevenson...
Beyond Phil Murray's "more" lies a concept of society that, he feels, fits the emerging facts of urban, industrial U.S. life today. It is a society where politics, community life and the feeling of "belonging" revolve around a man's occupation, and not around the neighborhood or suburb where he happens to live. Murray's "more" may result in calamitous clashes, of which the 1952 steel strike is a horrible example, but Murray's "more" does not imply class warfare. He specifically insists that worker and boss are members of the same community, a "functional...
...work. Ears ringing, the judges declined to choose a winner. Instead, they gave out little silver buttons classifying the wearer as first class (awarded to 95 of the soloists), good (85), or fair (22). A handful of performers, all of them city dwellers who had taken up yodeling in urban yodel clubs, were judged to have too "cultivated" a style. They drew the crushing verdict "insufficient...
...urban "masses" lived on greyly in the crumbling cities, without even cigarettes to solace their degradation. Curiously, a leading symptom of their despair was a marked rise in female homosexuality. Legions of psychiatrists, "the new vampires," policed the souls of citizens...