Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THEM, by Joyce Carol Oates. A family's battle to escape the economic and spiritual depression of urban American life is the theme of this novel by the author of A Garden of Earthly Delights and Expensive People...
...GLAK AND OTHER STORIES, by Harvey Jacobs. Bizarre urban fairy tales delivered with the kick and rhythm of a nightclub comedian...
...Viet Nam, a loose federation comprising representatives of some 50 established groups long allied with peace efforts. They include such diverse organizations as the National Council of Churches, the Socialist Workers Party, the Communist Party of the U.S.A., the Student Mobilization Committee and the Urban Coalition. Its leaders tend to be older and in some cases more militant and more radical than the Moratorium leadership. Some of them helped organize the protests during the Democratic Convention in Chicago, and they met last summer in Cleveland to plan mass "Marches Against Death" for November in Washington and San Francisco. To many...
Homosexuals with growing frequency have sought the anonymity and comparative permissiveness of big cities. It is this concentration of homosexuals in urban neighborhoods rather than any real growth in their relative numbers that has increased their visibility and made possible their assertiveness. According to the Kinsey reports, still the basic source for statistics on the subject, 10% of American men have long periods of more or less exclusive homosexuality; only 4% (2% of women) are exclusively homosexual all their lives. These may be inflated figures, but most experts think that the proportion of homosexuals in the U.S. adult population...
...implement it. Because the law forbids rural-highway signs, many banks have also quit financing small billboard companies. Without cash for maintenance, a lot of billboards have been allowed to rot on the roadsides-becoming uglier than ever. Big billboard companies-still collecting rent on their legal signs in urban and commercial areas -are buying billboard locations cheap and building new signs, betting that the Government will not enforce the law in the foreseeable future. Some companies have also noted that the law forbids signs within 660 feet of an interstate highway, and are thus putting up monstrous billboards...