Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most students walking by the Sackler Art Gallery probably haven't notice the bolts on top of the columns in front of the building. But for Philip A. Rizzo, an independent architect in Cambridge, they are "offensive" and an "urban blight" which the University needs to conceal or remove...
Iarrive at Central Square wearing black, unlit cigarette in hand. With romanticized notions of Kerouac and Ginsberg, I am ready to light up and spout out deep thoughts. But the Cantab Lounge reminds me more of a scummy bar in the middle of nowhere than of the urban youth underground I am expecting. It's the smell of cheap beer, and not the energy of angst, that hits me as I walk...
Turning around the other part of the problem--the lack of educational equality--could also be part of the solution to the problem. Minorities, especially poor minorities, are concentrated in urban areas where public schooling lags behind national standards. It's no surprise; heavily white suburban areas spend up to twice as much money per student per year...
...Ronald Reagan's most contentious Cabinet members, James Watt, was served with a 25-count perjury indictment by the independent counsel investigating corruption at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Watt, a former Interior Secretary, had served as a HUD consultant after leaving the Administration. He denied all charges, saying, "I am trusting God that justice can arise and will prevail...
...northern England home near Thirsk, Yorkshire. The Scottish-born James Alfred Wight did not begin writing until his early 50s, when he took the pen name Herriot and soon made up for lost time. His charming anecdotes of life as an English country vet tapped into the urban reader's apparently bottomless appetite for pastoral simplicity and infirm animals; All Creatures Great and Small, published in the U.S. in 1972, made Herriot a literary sensation-a status further enhanced by the popular BBC series based on his work. His 20 books were eventually translated into 20 languages. Meanwhile, British veterinary...