Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coffey, who upon entering the Union announced himself as a mem- ber of the Undergraduate Council's FreshmanCaucus, was doing field research for his finalpaper for a first-year seminar "City and UrbanLife: Literature of the Urban Conscious," led byTeaching Fellow Thomas J. McCarthy...
Long before this generation of young hipsters started reveling in the Vegas gestalt, certain intellectuals were taking seriously the city's no-holds- barred urban style. It was 25 years ago that a little-known architect and professor, Robert Venturi, returned to Yale with his two dozen student acolytes after a remarkable 10-day expedition to Las Vegas, where they stayed at the Stardust. His influential 1972 book, Learning from Las Vegas, immediately made Venturi famous as a heretical high-culture proponent for the ad hoc, populist design of the Strip -- the giant neon signs, the kitschy architectural allusions...
...century to accommodate the projected population influx, but they fear voters will decline to pay for them. Such civic disengagement is now a national phenomenon, but Las Vegas is at the cutting edge -- and always has been. Back during the city's first spurt of urban hypertrophy in the '50s, when other new cities were grandly and confidently expanding their schools and social-welfare systems, Las Vegas was pointedly stingy...
What the White House fears most, however, is not a major ideological battle like the one over NAFTA. "You will have more agreement on policy than people expect," says Andrew Cuomo, assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a member of Clinton's task force. "Nobody likes welfare. Nobody thinks it works." Many of the ideas that the White House is likely to endorse are also to be found in a Republican proposal put forward in the House. Among the features: a national campaign of persuasion to reduce teenage pregnancy, two-year benefit caps, penalties for mothers who bear...
...audience member who has sat through what feels like three hours of urban despair, albeit interwoven with homilies and hopes, that statement is startling. It is also a reminder of the real message of A Christmas Carol, in any form: Look at the forgotten and see them whole...