Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIXON-LINDSAY. New York's Mayor John Lindsay would attract urban liberals. But last week the former Vice President ruled out the possibility of such a slate...
...unfair. A protegé of Sam Rayburn's, the late Speaker of the House, and of Johnson's, Thornberry had an indifferent record during his first years in Congress, but eventually established himself as a man of moderately liberal views, responsive to the needs of an urban America. In 41 years on the bench, most recently as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (covering most of the Deep South and the Panama Canal Zone), he consistently fought segregation...
...Henry Dana wrote these observations in his diary at Christmastime, 1835, San Francisco Bay was 700 square miles of pristine majesty. In the years since, the building of the "place of great importance" has exacted its toll. Piers, salt ponds, rotting ship hulks, human detritus and a land-hungry urban complex have reduced that water area to 420 square miles. This week forces were mobilizing in San Francisco to end the shrinkage...
Cops, in fact, seemed for a while to be the government's only answer. Authorities arrested more than 800 stu dents, sent plainclothesmen to keep an eye on others. Gradually, a form of urban guerrilla warfare broke out in Rio. Students hurled pointed stones dug up from the sidewalks, burned an army truck and at one point barricaded Avenida Rio Branco. Mounted police charged with drawn sabers; police also pelted students with tear-gas grenades, finally opened fire with rifles. From overhead windows, meanwhile, office workers showered police with such desktop flak as ashtrays and paperweights. Clashes between police...
Militant young Negroes put a more defiant slant on it. Explains Charles Keil, a white ethnomusicologist and the author of Urban Blues: "For a Negro to say 'B. B. King is my main man' is to say 'I take pride in who I am.' With this self-acceptance, a measure of unity is gained, and a demand is made upon white America: 'Accept us on our own terms.' " Yet when soul solidarity is founded on a fellowship of suffering, it may involve not a demand for white acceptance but an outright exclusion of whites, as Godfrey Cambridge makes clear. "Soul...