Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford Foundation's $3 million grant to endow five chairs in urban studies at Harvard will boost a long-neglected field. At the least the new professorships will enable the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and several of Harvard's schools to provide more courses in a field that has recently attracted considerable undergraduate and graduate interest. The mere presence of more permanent professors, more courses, more Ph.D. candidates, and more research in urban affairs will agitate public concern for city afflictions...
...National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr. similarly distinguishes between defiant nihilism and the firm, orderly assertion of Black Power that, he maintains, has been an Urban League goal for all of its 57 years. He favors the formation of Negro unions and other organizations, partly to "give the Negro a sense of security that he can compete and organize," but mainly for the "mobilization of Negro political and economic resources into a significant bloc to achieve goals." He draws an elemental difference between the two opposing approaches to Black Power: "Where the builders differ from the burners...
...blonde girl wept at the entrance because she had forgotten to register for a fall course in urban problems at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Her interest in the plight of the cities was almost as touching as her determination to sit at the feet of the New School's newest lecturer, Conservative Spokesman William F. Buckley Jr., 42. Though urbanity flowed like sarsaparilla, Buckley never did get around to talking about the cities in his first class. Instead, he led his enraptured students through a 90-minute recitative of conservative epigrams, to wit: "The main...
...country, marked by long delays in getting to see a doctor for routine care, hurried and sometimes impersonal attention, difficulty in getting care at night and on weekends, unavailability of beds in one hospital while beds are empty in another near by, uneven distribution of care hurting both urban and rural poor, and obsolete hospitals in many of the major cities...
...doesn't fit into its surroundings. The Loeb (above) just sits there but then really makes it at night. Hilles Library, too, is neat in the dark but scares the people who live across Garden St. Sert's buildings look a little plastic; and his Peabody Terace is more urban than Cambridge and turns something of a cold shoulder to its environment. But his Holyoke Center really works in Harvard Square. A lot of people get quite freaked out by the Ed School's "vertical anthill" (below); but it's a personal thing. -- JOHN G. SHORT