Word: urbanely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chicken George settled the family at the end of Roots 1. The show's climax will dramatize Haley's arrival in Gambia to search for traces of his African forebear, Kunta Kinte. Along the way, Roots 2 will encompass the Reconstruction, two world wars, the growth of urban black ghettos and the birth of the modern civil rights movement...
...looking for fulltime, live-in help must compete with as many as 70 other applicants for the same worker. Live-in housekeepers on Long Island frequently get a color TV in their private quarters, use of a car and country club privileges in addition to their pay. In many urban areas, homeowners resort to maid sharing, maid stealing and other unorthodox means of getting help. A Fort Lauderdale couple succeeded in finding a housekeeper only after the husband, an attorney, received a client's domestic as part of a bonus for handling his divorce case. "I never know whether...
...Federal Government, too, apparently wants to discourage the proliferation of suburban malls that threaten the vitality of urban centers. Several federal agencies, by refusing to provide money for access roads and other necessary improvements, recently helped block proposed malls that would have competed with the redevelopment plans of Charleston, W. Va., and Duluth, Minn. The Government has also pitched in more directly, providing grants to over 100 cities in hope of helping downtown store owners. Meanwhile, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is encouraging big retailers like Sears, Roebuck to expand operations within the cities. This need not involve...
BACK in the mid-sixties pop art made its debut on the American scene; all the most ludicrous examples of mass urban culture shined as serious artworks. Andy Warhol got rich off his Campbell soup cans, George Segal for his over-all plaster casts of live human beings, Roy Lichtenstein for his comic strip tableaux...
...County politics, and then as an outstanding Congressman, Paul Tsongas has shown he has the intelligence and moral fortitude to perform equally well in the Senate. Tsongas's creative approach to energy problems, his sophistication in dealing with third world issues, his work on behalf of state and federal urban revitilization policies, and his support of the Kennedy-Corman national health insurance bill (which Brooke opposes) are representative of his highly progressive politics. With the idealism and sincerity of a Boy Scout, Tsongas offers a more honest and accessible style of leadership than that of the aloof Brooke...