Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ringing promises of guns and butter. He is expected to place more emphasis on the need for some belt tightening to fight the Viet Nam war. He will probably request a 10% to 15% increase in social security benefits and new programs in the health, welfare and urban-rehabilitation fields; he is particularly interested, for example, in a program to build nursing homes that would be "the kind of place I would have liked to see my mother in." But he is also expected to caution that the Great Society will have to proceed at a somewhat tempered pace...
...Urban Crisis. The crisis of the American urban complex, with its rotting center-city core and its increasing demands for intelligent planning as well as financial aid, was another central theme of the Governors' talks. Said Connecticut Democrat John Dempsey: "Connecticut as a whole can be a healthy society only if we join in a concerted effort to improve the quality of urban life." He recommended a new Department of Municipal Affairs, as well as new measures to combat air-and-water pollution and discrimination in jobs and housing. And New York's Rockefeller, whose bailiwick includes...
...Gallic Streicher or an urban Schweitzer? His books illustrate rather than resolve the paradox. When Journey to the End of the Night detonated on the French literary scene in 1932 (there were riots when it did not receive that year's Prix Goncourt), it was like an explosion of excrement. The doctor who had a profound vocation for healing wrote of his pitiable patients with derision and rage. If he was antiSemitic, he also detested Christians...
...adjustment to civilian life is likely to be increasingly difficult and frustrating. The deferred students can parlay the degrees they earn in the next few years into high-paying jobs in government and industry. The disadvantaged, already darlings of the Great Society, can press for urban renewal and massive income transfer programs, such as the negative income tax, particularly after defense spending is reduced. But the veterans will find their experience in the arts of warfare of little use in peacetime. Coming disproportionately from the lower middle class, they must return to a society that is grateful for their service...
...countryside. The muscle is provided by the "Red Rebel Workers," a post-adolescent version of the youthful Red Guards who have been pushing the cultural Revolution in the cities since summer. The Red Rebel Workers are factory hands, union men, who have been judged untainted by the technical, urban, non-ideological values Mao detects in many party officials. these workers have been asked to lead study sessions and week apparently did not please the Red Rebels, and fights broke...