Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anniversary gathering was "Forever Beginning"-a reminder that there is no room for complacency or conservatism in the richest and second-largest (10,331,574 members*) U.S. Protestant church. Speaker after speaker urged the Methodist delegates to gear up for the new challenges facing the church-ecumenism, equality, urban changes...
Burning Hot. In a student poolroom hangout on the fringe of the congested urban campus of the University of Southern California, Associate Professor of Business Administration Anthony Athos, a onetime auto-factory worker with "the lowest mechanical aptitude General Motors ever tested," peers over a pitcher of beer and explains that a teacher must have "that divine tension. You've got to be concerned?but not dedicated, which sounds as if you're doing something you think you ought to do. For me?Christ...
...saying, 'You can't merge with nature.' You are a man. You want things that nature doesn't want. You would like to live forever, and nature will kill you. So you stand and you look at nature, framed out there on the horizon. You are an urban dweller who is trying to make contact with it, and in a very fundamental sense you can never really do so except on a level of profound melancholy...
...troubles with teaching stem from healthy causes. Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt formed his New Deal brain trust, professors have been leaping down from their ivory towers to grapple with the earthly day-to-day problems of government and business. Their expertise is suddenly in demand to combat urban blight in Boston, famine in Bombay. "At any one given time," quips University of Chicago Dean Wayne Booth, "a first-class university has at least 10% of its professors in airplanes." Federal money devoted to research projects has multiplied 200 times since 1940, from $74 million to about $15 billion annually...
...urban version of a medieval morality play, Mr. Clean will do battle this morning with his arch-enemy Mr. Dirt...