Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard may block a recently announced Cambridge proposal to solicit Federal urban renewal funds for Harvard Square if the University cannot reach an agreement with the City on the long-term use of Harvard land in the Square...
Violence is not only an urban but overwhelmingly a lower-class phenomenon. In Atlanta, for example, neighborhoods with family incomes below $3,000 show a violent-crime rate eight times higher than among $9,000 families. In the middle class, violence is perhaps sublimated increasingly in sport or other pursuits. Says Sociologist Wolfgang: "The gun and fist have been substantially replaced by financial ability, by the capacity to manipulate others in complex organizations, and by intellectual talent. The thoughtful wit, the easy verbalizer, even the striving musician and artist are equivalents of male assertiveness, where broad shoulders and fighting fists...
...Trance. The movement, now worldwide, burgeoned to more than 12 million faithful belonging to a host of evangelical denominations, the largest of which is the Assemblies of God (U.S. membership: 572,000). Traditionally strong in the rural South, Pentecostalism has made notable recent gains among urban Negroes and Puer to Ricans, and has even taken root on U.S. college campuses. For those who have received the gift of speaking in tongues, it can be an ecstatic occurrence. Glossolalia usually happens at the climax of a Pentecostal service, when the revivalist "lays on hands"-places his hand on the head...
...census showed that almost one-half of all the Negro housing was dilapidated or deteriorating, compared to 18 percent of white housing. Urban renewal has resulted in the relocation of families from slum neighborhoods to adjacent areas where equally bad situations are developing. Despite fair housing laws, Negroes are still largely restricted to the areas where they now live...
...majority of residents in the Roxbury-South End areas are tenants. Participants told of the poor condition of housing and the exhorbitant rent which many tenants must pay. In addition, the Committee heard charges the Negro families are uprooted because of urban renewal; that racial discrimination against those who seek housing is scarce, especially for large families; and that public housing continues to be segregated...