Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expert on reapportionment points out, "the suburbanite fled the city and now resents being called upon to solve its problems. For the most part, he adopts a 'them' v. 'us' attitude." Despite this detachment, reapportioned legislatures have shown a greater awareness of urban problems than any of their predecessors. Says Herbert Wiltsee, director of the Southern Office of the Council of State Governments: "The 1967 legislative sessions have been giving almost unprecedented consideration to such matters as air and water pollution and consumer protection-subjects of special concern to city dwellers and suburbanites...
...help, and he knows that his face and name may lend respectability to an anti-war movement which needs it. The effectiveness of the April 12 March in New York, in Vaughn's view, was riddled by tactical errors--a slate of controversial speakers, the wild forays of urban guerrillas and a contingent of exhibitionist hippies Being...
AMERICA HURRAH takes the temperature of urban U.S.A. and finds an icy emptiness at the core. Playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie deep freezes moments of modern American life in a chilling, stirring theatrical evening...
Power & Prestige. None of this discourages lawyers from seeking district judgeships; for the last 63 appointments, 800 volunteered their services. Away from the urban anonymity of such hydraheaded courts as New York's 24-judge Southern District, a local U.S. judge may control a federal fiefdom that makes him a prime public figure. The $30,000-a-year salary may seem low viewed from Wall Street or Chicago's LaSalle Street, but it goes a long way in most areas, and the status is unbeatable. Appointed for life (barring misconduct), district judges are untouched by re-election pressures...
...historian called the administration's escalation of the Vietnam war a part of a foreign policy which "would rejoice the heart of John Foster Dulles." He urged the Democratic party to reorganize around a coalition of university intellectuals, liberal clergy, and people concerned with the Negro revolution and urban movements...