Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overwhelming Tory vote in a predominantly urban area of that size partially reflects a working-class protest against wage freezes and other austerity measures imposed by the Wilson government. Without doubt, the elections also gave many Laborites the chance to express their dissatisfaction without having to go so far as to turn Labor out of Parliament. But the fact that the To ries also won control of ten other local councils in last week's voting across the country showed that the shift was as much pro-Tory as it was antiLabor...
...does not make his themes any the less contemporary. His subjects are haunted faces captured in the city's maze of subways, lunch counters, hospitals - and sometimes square, symbolic boxes that fade away into a phantasmagoric perspective under the baleful glare of fluorescent lights. "I respond to the urban environment," says Tooker, a native of Brooklyn who received his education at Andover ('38) and Harvard ('42), and now lives part of the time in Hanover, N.H. "Painting nature can be a kind of running away and an escape," he explains. "I feel I am urban...
...halter. Admit the outsider to a guest membership in Chinese society. Compliment him on his knowledge of aspects of Chinese culture or of the Chinese language. Entertain him with informality and frankness. Establish the personal bonds of friendship, which in the old China were stronger than in Western urban life today. Become really intimate friends and understand his unspoken assumptions and personal motivations...
Joan B. Pinck '50, a study of contemporary reviews of certain works and comparison with retrospective critical judgements; Sylvia A. Earle, classifying marine plants from the Caribbean; Muriel Cohen, study of urban problems; Caroline Bloomfield; developing a junior high course in medieval history...
...median College Board Scores for the class are 680 in verbal and 710 in math -- a level which has varied little over the past few years. "The scores have remained constant at least partly because of our efforts to get students from rural areas and urban slums; they don't score as well as those from suburbia," Smith said...