Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Tenement" follows the fortunes-such as they are-of nine Negro families in a Chicago slum, from last year's long, hot summer to their eviction early this month to make way for an urban renewal project...
Despite his distaste for modernism (Carpenter Center, he once said, resembles two pianos copulating), Finley himself works at mental urban renewal. Cambridge--Central Square and all--becomes "a jewelled necklace strung along the Charles." A stream of metaphors and classical allusions lends a rosy grandeur to what is, recasting it in more congenial form...
...what groups are ready to take the next step." An example of this is the traveling representative who visits a number of universities in this area of the country and tries to initiate some kind of radical activity. A Party member from New York University said that in general urban schools tend to be "more advanced than suburban schools." At a "backwards university" the Communists may call for some form of civil rights activity or community organizing instead of pushing for a demonstration against the war or a discussion of Marx. Thus the Communists maintain that they serve the whole...
...member of the Urban League, Fowler formerly served as a principal of one of the twelve remaining all-Negro schools in Little Rock; three of his five daughters attend integrated classes. He is well regarded by white teachers for his integrity and professionalism. Fowler hopes to "place people where they will best serve, regardless of race," but adds that under the law, anyone holding his job must press for further job integration. "It can be done," he says, "and I will...
Should Mexicans ever send a philosophical Peace Corps into the urban sprawl north of their own country, the missionaries will certainly carry in their saddlebags The Futile Life of Pito Perez. Meanwhile, Pito should be pressed into the hands of any tourists, State Department types or oilmen whose duties call them from the confident certitudes of U.S. life into the philosophical complexities that lie south of the border...