Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Truffaut and Balzac often use Paris as their setting and romanticize urban life. Both have broad visions of radically different assortments of people. Both perceive the absurdity and ?pettiness, but above all the glory of la comedic humaine. They each indulge in totally irrelevant detail, which produces an overall effect of realism. Both have a taste for the melodramatic and both believe that improbable chance plays a large role in the lives of real people...
Draper's successor, effective January 1, will be Charles L. Miller, the 40-year-old chairman of M. I. T.'s department of Civil Engineering, who has pioneered the application of computer methodology to urban systems...
Founder of the so-called "I-Lab," Draper challenged the recent M. I. T. Corporation decision to refuse weapons contracts and emphasize civilian research related to urban problems. Draper said he feels defense research has a vital role and should not be supplanted...
...have no objection to starting a laboratory for urban problems," Draper explained. "But why tear down what we've already built up?" He suggested that the lack of funding for civilian projects would force some investigators to leave M. I. T. for more lucrative prospects...
...they cope with power blackouts, telephone breakdowns, transportation delays and an increasingly paralytic postal service. For years, businessmen and politicians have worshiped economic growth. Today that idol is tarnished by inflation and pollution. "We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities," John Gardner, chairman of the Urban Coalition, said last week in Washington, "until we reach a final state of affluent misery -Croesus on a garbage heap." Slower economic growth, which is part of the Administration's recipe for battling inflation, might also help to improve the deplorable condition of cities by checking urban sprawl and pollution...