Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies and an ADA board member who supported the resolution, said the possible departure of labor from ADA "may be more of a blow to labor than to ADA." Last year labor contributed about 10 per cent of ADA's $258,000 income...
...described "a spreading awareness of the interdependence of physicians and specialists in economics, urban development, public administration, law, and engineering," and wrote "there is an increasing recognition that community facilities and institutional endeavors must be integrated...
...nation's urban public schools have lately been subjected to a tide of opprobrious criticism. In dissonant concert, such fiery critics as Robert Coles (Children of Crisis), Jonathan Kozol (Death at an Early Age) and Herbert Kohl (36 Children) have charged that the city schools are guilty of the "destruction of the hearts and minds" of children...
...Manhattan lecture, Dr. Robert J. Havighurst assailed this angry band of skeptics as "non-responsibles" who were distorting the truth about the urban schools and imperiling reasonable hopes for improving them. A visiting professor of urban education at Fordham University, Havighurst argued that outraged accounts of ghetto education are convincing the public that the schools are in a state of inexorable decay. In fact, he answered, today's city schools are superior to those of 1920, 1940 and 1960. Their textbooks and curriculums are better designed, their teachers are better educated, classes are smaller...
...this vastly overpraised French novel does one learn that "this is the story of François Besson." This forthright statement is doubly reassuring, because it has been preceded by a weird and frenzied surrealistic opener in which the world crazily assumes the aspect of a petrified urban forest, "a deserted planet, full of signs and booby traps...