Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...firm. Her salary quintupled and she moved into her own two-room apartment. When her parents tell Zhao that her friends are all having children, she replies, "I have no time to be married." Chinese are marrying at a later age, casual premarital sex is more common, and the urban young increasingly choose their own spouses. "It used to be that Communist Party membership was important," said Wang Zhixiong, a Guangdong researcher. "Now people's tastes favor money, professional ranking and appearance...
...resistant to willful ignorance when placed on the stage in a play as eerily uninflected as Howard Korder's The Lights and a production as epic and energized as Mark Wing-Davy's at New York City's Lincoln Center. Without preaching, without invective, without in any way distorting urban life, The Lights makes one ashamed to dwell in a U.S. city and absorb its brutish selfishness...
...came closer than he ever had before to grasping the mantle of his political patron saint, John F. Kennedy. Standing at the pulpit from which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his last sermon, Clinton spoke courageously and passionately about the crime and violence that plague America's black urban youth...
Federal policies help, he said, but they are no substitute for personal responsibility and community action. There are changes the government can make to alleviate the causes and effects of urban violence, the President said. "And then," he added, "there are some changes we're going to have to make from the inside out, or the others won't matter...
...problem not in terms of jobs gained and jobs lost, not in the partisan terms of change versus grid lock, not in the politically calculated terms that have become so common, but instead in terms of principle and moral urgency. After citing statistics demonstrating the disgraceful effects of urban violence of American youth, the President proclaimed, powerfully and passionately, "I tell you, it is our moral duty to turn it around...