Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backlash, said Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young, "did not materialize as much as many people had anticipated. American citizens, when the chips are down, prefer to vote their intelligence and good sense rather than their prejudices." In many races, in fact, there was something of a Negro "frontlash." Winthrop Rockefeller became the first Republican to win Arkansas' governorship by capturing 80% of the Negro vote?which turned out to be his margin of victory. South Carolina Democrat Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings' 10,000-vote margin for a U.S. Senate seat came mostly from Negro votes. In Maryland, Republican Agnew beat...
...part, the shifting urban vote is a result of the slow, steady erosion of the coalition of ethnic minorities, Negroes and intellectuals that F.D.R. forged 34 years ago. Negro militancy has siphoned off much support from urban Italians, Irish and Slavs. The war has disenchanted many intellectuals. Of greater concern to the Democrats is their fading appeal to the blue-collar vote, once their mainstay. California's Brown, who had the support of labor leaders but lost the rank-and-file vote, noted: "Workers used to ask about workmen's compensation and disability insurance. Not this time. The workers have...
...students who have forgotten to do their homework. Eventually the counterpoint of questions and answers gets so wholly garbled that the dialogue sounds like one of those elementary conversation books for learning a foreign language. Then the play opens out into a kind of choreographic ritual of modern life, urban herds shuffling to and fro, the commuter's lock step, a cocktail party. It is apparent that interviewers and applicants alike need help: instead of the bread of life, they are fed vacuous cliches by intellectual bubble-gum blowhards representing the church, state, politics and psychoanalysis...
...petered out partly because black-power advocates have forced white students out of their movements. At Berkeley, the Afro-American Student Union even boycotted a "black-power day" conference because some whites helped plan it. Considering the Negro's legal rights mainly established, students at nearly every large urban university-notably Chicago, N.Y.U., Pennsylvania, U.S.C., San Francisco State-are working in Negro neighborhoods on the less dramatic long-range task of helping Negroes exercise those rights. No less than one-tenth of the 88,000 students on the University of California's nine campuses are engaged in volunteer...
...report issued at an American Public Health Association convention last week in San Francisco, Dr. James E. Teele, assistant professor of sociology at the Harvard School of Public Health, doubted that these agencies actually discriminate against Negro and urban-dwelling women. The seeming inequity has arisen because of prevailing misconceptions of welfare agencies held by the lower class, he said...