Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Journalists, clergymen and social workers had said some of the same things before, but never under the federal imprimatur. In the circumstances, the conclusions were shattering. Said the report: "The evidence-not final, but powerfully persuasive-is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling. For vast numbers, the fabric of conventional social relationships has all but disintegrated...
Family Allowances. His second solution to the plight of the urban poor is to give allowances to families with children. "We are the only industrial democracy in the world," he told a Sen ate subcommittee last winter, "that does not have a family or children's allowance. And we are the only industrial democracy in the world whose streets are filled with rioters each summer...
...that he was later to focus on the Ne gro family, Moynihan surveyed his own brethren, and found that Irish progress in America by most standards has been slow and painful. "Paddy and Sambo are the same people," says Moynihan -both from rural, unschooled backgrounds, both shattered by urban experiences, both falling into patterns of drink and violence...
Ouija-Board Sociology. "From his position at the key institution on urban affairs," says a top Administration urbanologist, Moynihan "has the greatest broker position in the world." Moynihan, to be sure, is not universally admired, nor are his ideas. Some critics, like the Rev. Henry Browne, a Catholic priest on Manhattan's upper West Side, accuse him of practicing "Ouija-board sociology," while a friend from the London days, Broadcaster Paul Niven, notes that he has a "natural instinct for self-publicity." Yet few have articulated the urban crisis so well, and few have put forth so many thoughtful...
...Philip Hauser, 57, a sociologist at the University of Chicago's Center for Urban Studies, the second most important urban research center in the country, advocates a federal "Human Renewal Administration." "All of the welfare and educational provisions today," he declares, "are only a Band-Aid on a gaping, massive wound. Should the present trends continue, we can expect guerrilla warfare on a scale terrible to contemplate." Hauser contends that a great deal of effort is being dissipated. "What is the point of putting children in a Head Start program," he asks, "and then into a conventional school system...