Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities last week as two irregular armies squared off against each other. On one side swarmed the Red Guards, the teenage, slogan-drunk students turned loose upon the land by Mao Tse-tung to spearhead his fanatical Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Opposing them with increasing vehemence were urban workers, resentful of the Red Guards' noisy and disrespectful descent on their factories in the name of Mao-think. The workers were encouraged in their opposition by much of the Communist Party apparatus still loyal to China's President, Liu Shao-chi. The results were disorders, widespread work stoppages...
Builders and small shopkeepers are the only significant urban groups that have not been nationalized. In Damascus and Aleppo, dozens of half-completed grey buildings stand forlornly in their wooden scaffolds, abandoned by builders who stopped construction because unrealistic rent controls would deny them profit. Though 90% of all "feudalist" land has been confiscated, the government so far has allocated only 20% to farmers...
...building an entirely new coeducational liberal-arts college on a $25 million campus near the cultural glamour of Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Per forming Arts. Its dean, the Rev. Arthur Clarke, expects to accept 3,000 "mature, bright students-people with a purpose" to enjoy an "urban, strongly humanistic" curriculum. The Lincoln Center campus already includes Fordham's School of Law, which handled mainly night students in rented downtown quarters for 60 years, and will add the School of Education, still housed in what Executive Vice President Rev. Timothy Healy calls "a dump-but a dump...
...Churches of Christ, who live mostly in the South and Southwest, have embarked on a new kind of aggressive evangelism. In order to carry the Gospel to one corner of the U.S. where they have few adherents, the churches are sending entire communities of believers to the urban Northeast instead of relying on individual missionaries to do the task...
Incredibly enough, Buckley does have some provocative views on New York City. If one is willing to wade through the self-vindication--and the life story of the consummately unexciting Conservative Party--reading The Unmaking of a Mayor can offer a certain insight into conservative thinking on urban problems. What one learns is that conservative thinking--even via Buckley--isn't always so crazy as we of Kremlin-on-the-Charles may like to think...