Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kitsch by scores of Ivy-admiring, mid-western schools. This continuity--not of style or design, but of material--conveys a sense of uniformity that is comforting. But this uniformity is ultimately false and imposed by men in the vain hope of controlling, taming if you will, their volatile, urban surroundings...
...field. Similarly, Hillel and St. Paul's though superficially dedicated to such kin ventures as morality and God, differ on details like whether Christ is the messiah. Similar disagreements between The Crimson and Mass. Hall, and the Fly and Lampoon, need not be explicated. The point is this: urban planning can only do so much to make a community look and feel like one community. The rouge monotony that serves as Cambridge's controlling architectural authority is able to mask only the surface of life. The intended effect of brick omnipresence is coherence, or the idea that even institutions...
Leonard C. Alkins, president of the Boston NAACP, joined with presidents of surrounding branches--along with Reverend Charles R. Stith, national president of the Organization for a New Equality and Dr. Joan Wallace-Benjamin, president of the Eastern Massachusetts Urban League--in demanding that Boston Magazine publicly apologize for the headline...
Wallace-Benjamin described the Urban League'scurrent outside efforts to exert pressure onBoston Magazine. Along with sending out 1,000letters to Urban League members asking them toexpress outrage and to contact the magazine andits publisher, she said, attempts to contactadvertisers will be made. Gates could not bereached for comment yesterday
...living. Pilgrims travel with few possessions, spending nights in tents and under the open sky. Meals are simple, and the clothing basic. The immense simplicity with which the Hajj is conducted teaches us that we can do without the finer things in life. The complexity and ornamentation of modern urban society are not essential to our existence. Observing the Hajj brings us back to the basics and points out that all the "extras" we strive for are not necessarily the most important things in life. Particularly in the world we live in and in places like our university...