Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite opposition from conservatives, the Senate voted to confirm Roberta Achtenberg to head the fair-housing office in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She's the first open lesbian ever appointed to such a high federal post...
...loaded topics that have delighted and irritated people on both sides of the color line. West flays liberals and conservatives for trying to force blacks "to do all the 'cultural' and 'moral' work necessary for healthy race relations" while ignoring the psychic pain that racism has inflicted on the urban poor. He accuses the black middle class that has sprung up since the civil rights movement of the '60s of being "decadent" and "deficient." One consequence of its grasping materialism, he charges, is that "there has not been a time in the history of black people in this country when...
...changed his tune. Thematically, however, the new band seems more assured, unafraid to comment on current events. There's also a sense of rhythmic joy about this album. Farrell has long experimented with rock and funk, and on Porno funk wins the day; the songs are buoyed by jubilant urban and third-world percussion. This is music to savor. Sit back and get yourself relaxed...
...past two years, Harvard's First year Urban Program (FUP) and the Alternative Spring Break Program have contributed time to the Bank. DeLong says that Harvard's 5th and 25th year reunion classes will also work at the Bank this year...
...hour joyride on the A line, the longest in the system. But as it turned out, the tale of Keron ("Keno") Thomas, 16, was not of the Honey-let's-call-that-broker-in- Westchester-this-city-really-is-going-to-hell variety. It was that other type of urban story, the kind that continues to propel big-city dwellers forward each day, a tale of hard work and self- starting (albeit misguided) initiative, of taking matters into one's own hands to make dreams come true...