Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been city dwellers for 50 centuries, but barely two centuries have sufficed to bring U.S. cities to a desperate crisis. With seven out of ten Americans now living in cities, the U.S. is the world's largest urban society. The growth of the cities has been so swift that it has spawned some of the nation's deepest and most pressing problems. Throughout the U.S., the big cities are scarred by slums, hobbled by inadequate mass transportation, starved for sufficient finances, torn by racial strife, half-choked by polluted air. The nation's urban population...
...investigate what can be done about the worsening plight of the city and its poor, whose frustrations and resentments have erupted in a succession of bloody riots every summer since 1964. And Lyndon Johnson, who is acutely aware that his Great Society can hardly stand on a foundation of urban decay, took up the cry for action during a threeday, five-state trip through the populous U.S. Northeast...
...American society. But in 1966 they really don't have to. By skillfully manipulating the issues, they may be able to make inroads into normally Democratic blocs. Ethnic minorities in the cities and even distrinaire liberals in the suburbs are agitated over what they consider the tendency of disadvantaged urban Negroes to resort to violence and rioting. That's why only 25 northern Democrats voted against anti-riot legislation proposed by a Florida G.O.P. Congressman. Many who support the Vietnam war, yet oppose escalating food prices, are willing to see reduced government spending take the form of cuts...
...important new milestone" toward racial justice. In a sense, that is so. Even though the measure is far less stringent than many state laws, a federal law naturally has far more impact. Nevertheless, the bill is at best a modest milestone, a halting start toward ending what Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver rightly calls the "most stubborn and universal of the Negro's disadvantages...
Freud dealt with noise irritation as a symptom of anxiety neurosis "undoubtedly explicable on the basis of the close inborn connection between auditory impressions and fright." But Freud did not live in a modern apartment. People who do are subject to what Columbia University Urban Planner Charles Abrams calls "a new form of trespass, a new invasion of privacy." The Dickensian poor may have had to make a virtue of propinquity, and the Latin races have historically prized it, but the upper middle classes in the U.S. find unwanted intimacy irritating. Unseen, but all too perfectly heard, are domestic strife...