Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. The 1965 Watts riot, model for the urban violence of today, is painfully and poignantly dissected to uncover the cancer of Negro despair...
...will to survive. It will likely open the way to vaster, more absurd mechanizations of defense. If it is never used, the magnitude of such a dead investment will reproach mankind in its folly for generations to come. If it is employed, it will not even protect urban areas; we may die with the satisfaction of knowing that most of "them" will be just as dead. I cannot countenance my taxes being used for the preservation of steel and the propagation of death...
...Viet Nam and urban riots together represent "an especial problem of American liberals because more than anyone else it is they who have been in office, in power at the time of, and in large measure presided over the onset of both." The war "was thought up and is being managed by the men John F. Kennedy brought to Washington." The cities erupted "in the aftermath of one of the most extraordinary periods of liberal electoral victories that we have ever experienced. Who are we, then, to be pointing fingers...
...change institutions. The major law schools offer a home to a number of faculty members with a reformist bent, who see the law as perhaps the principal process for channeling and controlling the fierce and explosive energies of our population. Some of these men have worked on the urban frontier, some on the international frontier, some in civil rights and civil liberties, others in labor or conservation...
Romney, who said Thursday he has not decided whether or not to seek the GOP presidential nomination, made several stops yesterday on the next to last leg of his 20-day tour of America's urban areas. He met with urban experts at Brandeis, Boston College, and Boston University, informally addressed a crowd of about 100 Brandeis students who gathered in the rain to see him, and said at a press conference that the nation would have to get back to "fundamental American principles" in human relations and in belief...