Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senate Democrats have long been accustomed to the gentlemanly brawling between their factions of Southern conservatives and urban liberals. It is less often that Senate Republicans, so long a minority, have displayed their divisions. Yet the Senate G.O.P. now includes a band of moderates and liberals increasingly disposed to cross party lines to vote with their ideological counterparts on such issues as ABM and civil rights. Last week, as the 43 Republican Senators prepared to select Everett Dirksen's successor as minority leader, the factional lines of stress became clear...
Perhaps the opening week's most promising premiere is Room 222 (ABC), in which Lloyd Haynes plays a black Mr. Novak, a masterful and empathic teacher of history in an urban high school. Supporting characters include an iconoclastic Jewish principal (Michael Constantine) who openly hates PTA meetings, and a stereotypical, wide-eyed, white apprentice teacher (Karen Valentine) capable of telling Haynes, "I think it's so significant that you're colored." Except for such sappy moments, Room 222 may prove to be more good-humoredly wise on the problems of school prejudice and board-of-education bureaucracy...
Belief is not an issue in Jacobs' bizarre, mainly urban fairy tales. He is essentially a monologist, and his effect depends not so much on the credibility of his characters or incidents as on the incredibility of his language. He is a not-so-ancient mariner of kitsch, whose voyages seem mostly to have been out of the sovereign state of innocence via the borscht circuit. He re-enacts them repeatedly under assumed names in this, his first collection, emerging from a Jewish childhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side, mournful yet wide-eyed, trying to gain...
...Hampton area suffers from all the same plight of many urban areas. With tens of thousands of sailors in bars and tattoo parlors, crime in the streets and heroin are major problems...
Where the Negroes in Southside have only recently merged from a "colored" status, the blacks in the Hampton area have emerged from a "Negro" consciousness. It parallels the diversity in black political thinking between the rural South, with its Charles Evers and Julian Bonds, and the urban North with its Black Panthers...