Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pruning will be selective. Post subscribers who already receive LIFE will not be affected. Generally, the Post and LIFE will share high-quality circulation-subscribers who live in urban areas. Editorial content of the Post, now a mixture of meat and corn, will gradually become more uniformly sophisticated, Ackerman expects. "The problem we've had at the Post," he says, "is not knowing whether we're serving a mass or a class audience. The Post cannot make it in its present condition...
...except the Neanderthals agreed on Federal management of the economy, the goal of full employment, Medicare, formal legal equality for Negroes and, above all, economic growth." As a result, traditional American liberalism lost its innovative thrust, argues Harrington, and is unable to cope with the persisting problems of poverty, urban blight, inadequate education and racial hostility. To Harrington, nothing is more dangerous than the traditional American optimism that says, "However miserable the present may be, there is always hope for the future...
...present when none actually exists. In The Heroes of Telemark, some corny zoom technique was at least in part redeemed by controlled visual construction and a sensible linear narrative. Perhaps A Dandy In Aspic could have similarly transcended its endless zooms to close-ups of anguished eyeballs and urban details; unfortunately, director Mann died three weeks before shooting was completed and star Laurence Harvey finished the film, presumably supervising the editing. What remains is a shooting style in transition (Mann trying to change from pictorial simplicity to a more montage-conscious approach) put together, not really badly, but certainly impersonally...
Representatives of the Harvard administration yesterday met with protesting members of the Roxbury community, along with Harvard Afro and SDS members. They discussed in heated fashion, two proposals of the Roxbury-based New Urban League of Boston...
Discussion was initiated by Bryant Rollins of the New Urban League, who set the tone by saying that the most important issue was community control of whatever Roxbury involvement Harvard proposes...