Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups to the White House to speak their minds. Later, potential supporters are asked back and told how they can aid the President on the issue. To help Carter's moribund energy bill, for example, Wexler last year met with at least 1,000 state officials and farm, urban, religious, business and. consumer leaders...
...Teddy supporters are jubilant each time Carter makes a mistake or looks unpresidential. They gird their loins for battle each time Carter moves to the right and junks budget luxuries like a decent health care program or money for urban revitalization. They gnash their teeth when he says "We are about to have a big breakthrough in the SALT talks that will end the arms race and help moves us towards my ultimate goal, a nuclear-free world. Amen. We will increase defense spending by $15 billion dollars to build more weapons. Amen." They chant each morning...
...Georgian is no longer the man who can walk up to a three-year-old, smile a good-old-boy-two-sets-of-teeth-smile and say, "Why shucks, I don't even rightly recollect as I know where Washington is." And he can kiss the black, poor, urban vote goodbye, without getting many Tax-Revolt, solid Republicans in the suburbs votes...
Unlike their counterparts today, the Modernists-Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Wright and Gropius-cared about meeting the real needs of mankind. If they are guilty of utopianism, at least they dreamed of relieving and uplifting the urban masses that lived in congested, unhealthy and degrading conditions. Modernism may have failed to remake the world, but it dared greatly...
...other hand, existing programs were not cut much at all. Total spending for HEW rises a bit more than 10%, to $199.4 billion next year, and the department's share of the budget grows fractionally to 37.5%. Similarly, at Housing and Urban Development, spending is up slightly more than 18%, to $ 10.6 billion. Boasted one HUD staffer: "We didn't lose one program that we didn't want to lose...