Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said in a second meeting with the students late yesterday that he had arranged for a conference today with Martin Gopen, employment counselor for the Urban League, and construction company officials. He said he would be present at the 4 p.m. conference...
...study points up the fact that those from an urban environment are more interested in working in business than those from rural areas. Of those at business schools, the greatest number come from a middle to high income suburban, educated family. Today's business school graduate expects to start his salary where his father left off, according to the study...
...Reckoning future population trends on the basis of his own census studies, Wood badgered Sears into opening its first retail stores, initially in the Midwest and the West. Some of the early stores served only small neighborhoods -which have long since become some of the nation's busiest urban and suburban areas...
...year-old bachelor named Alexander Portnoy, high-school honor student from Newark, first in his law-school class, and now assistant human-rights commissioner in New York City. At first glance, the chronicle of Portnoy's pain, rooted as it is in Jewishness and the urban environment, may appear to have only specialized appeal, but Roth gives it a universality that reaches beyond ethnic boundaries. It is a coda of rage and savagely honest self-lashing reminiscent of the performances of the late Lenny Bruce. No detail is varnished, no lust or act nice-Nellied as Portnoy complains, clowns...
...Bobby Kennedy bumper stickers. Even if this thing ends in violence (it is already confused and frustrated, and that combination often leads to violence), this is not a revolution, nor what it meant to be. Everything the Poor People want has already been proposed by the Johnson Administration, the Urban Coalition, or the Kerner Commission. The only thing really new is a guaranteed income, and SCLC only wants it for "those either too young, too old, or too handicapped to work...