Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some extent, the taxpayer rebellion reflects a growing concern by parents, especially in urban areas, about the declining quality of public school education. Says Dr. Paul Miller, Cincinnati school superintendent: "People say that Johnny can't read anymore, or Mary can't spell, or kids aren't being taught arithmetic." Voting against bigger school budgets also represents one of the few direct ways that citizens can express their anger at a seemingly endless spiral of rising taxes. Basically, says Calvin Rossi, legislative representative of the California Teachers' Association, the voters "are not saying...
...enterprising developer as well as an architect, who has played leading roles wearing both hats in creating San Francisco's projected Embarcadero Center (TIME, Feb. 24) and Atlanta's own downtown Peachtree Center, of which the hotel is a part. With an eye to both urban development and showmanship, he has gone all out toward making Regency Hyatt House a civic showpiece...
...nearby factories. Peter Brüning, who like Winfred Gaul, is fascinated with traffic and touring maps, points out that he lives in Düsseldorf because it is the geographical center of a "seemingly endless area where roads become the interconnecting arteries between every possible manifestation of urban and rural conditions. My studio thus becomes a microcosm of what surrounds...
...board posts are "basically appointive rather than elective." Also approved: a Virginia Beach, Va., plan that gives each of seven equal districts a resident city councilman but requires that they be elected by citywide ballot. Finding no "invidious discrimination," Douglas saw the plan as a salutary "detente between urban and rural communities...
...company is himself still alive, though he has long since had his say. Erza Pound, 81, now living in Italy, fathered modern English poetry, freed it from excessive strictures of meter, rhetoric and prosody. One of his earliest converts was T. S. Eliot, who sensed the dilemma of modern, urban and areligious man, and whose dry, ironic style and endless rhythmic ways of weaving contemporary sounds are echoed in virtually every poet's work today...