Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brother Jack regarded the West Virginia primary in 1960. Jack had to win West Virginia by a big margin to prove that his Roman Catholicism was no handicap in a predominantly Protestant state. Bobby wants to win big in Indiana to prove that he is not merely an urban phenomenon or a prodigy of the Eastern enclave...
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, both 26, are cool. Their restrained vocal style is a lot closer to the madrigalists of the 16th century than to the 20th century pop shouters, and their songs are intelligent, poetic, melodically ingenious. They are, in short, the ultimate urban folksingers...
Heard & Understood. But what the fans seem to like as much as the social commentary is S. & G.'s whimsical ability to poeticize about the commonplace. In Bookends, they dote wackily on one ordinary aspect of urban life...
...urban areas, particularly in the North, Negro churches-like their white counterparts-have been suffering from a steady erosion of influence. One problem is that college-educated Negroes, as they gain in affluence, tend to abandon fundamentalist churches. Says Detroit N.A.A.C.P. Leader Robert Tindal, describing the Negro's Christian status ladder: "When you're poor, you're Baptist; when you advance slightly, you become a Methodist; when you arrive you're an Episcopalian." By comparison with King and other outspoken Southern pastors, the majority of Northern clergy have been much more passive in the struggle...
There was the customary international flavor to this year's ceremony. Pope Paul chose twelve students from the underdeveloped "third world," at tending Rome's Pontifical Urban University, to share in the ritual. One seminarian was from North Viet Nam, another from South Korea; four were Africans. Afterward, in a ten-minute sermon, the Pope spoke of the universal need for fraternity. "A new current of love must turn enemies into friends, strangers into brothers," he said. "Love is still shrunken and confined in side borders of customs, interests and selfishness which must be widened. Love...