Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marinara), sips twelve-year-old bourbon when he works at home at night. He dresses in banker-conservative clothing, favors dark suits and dark Homburgs at the office, a plum-colored smoking jacket and black leather slippers at home. When he became HHFA director, Weaver promptly moved into an urban-renewed Washington apartment ("I wanted to put my money where my mouth was"), but within a year put his money into more luxurious accommodations ($300 a month) on fashionable upper Connecticut Avenue...
...HHFA director, Weaver headed a complicated conglomeration of agencies-FHA, the Urban Renewal Administration, the Public Housing Administration, the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae"). Weaver himself labeled it "an administrative monstrosity," but he did little to pull it together. In too many cases, city officials complained, it seemed that the Congress would pass a housing bill, the President would sign it, and then Weaver's agencies would immediately wrap it in red tape. Yet it was one of the Government's biggest financial operations, with a capital outlay of investments, grants, mortgages and housing subsidy contracts totaling...
...Weaver, who has said repeatedly, "You cannot have physical renewal without human renewal," attempted from the first to instill a more humanized philosophy. He stimulated better-looking public housing by instigating awards for design. He improved relocation policies by increasing funds available to help small businessmen displaced by urban renewal. He saw to it that the Housing Act of 1961 included grants for recreational and scenic open-space areas. And he pushed through in that bill controversial Section 221d3, which gives nonprofit corporations cut-rate (31%) mortgage loans at the Treasury's expense to provide housing for displaced families...
...Catch-22, now a classic of its genre, Joseph Heller presents an American pilot who would bomb his country's bases for "cost"plus 6%." In Stem, Bruce Jay Friedman deflates the American concept of the hero by making his anti-hero a round-shouldered, wide-hipped urban Jew helpless to handle his neighbors, his job or even his flirtatious wife ("I saw a kiss. I saw tongues"). Jews, of course, have no priority on black humor. One of its darkest stars, Terry Southern, a Texas gentile, has been operating successfully in the black for years with ham-handed...
...College of New York, where they both developed a boundless disdain for ideologies of both the right and left, the two editors emphasize fact and information in their magazine, avoid simplistic political stances. "Too many intellectuals," writes Kristol in the current Public Interest, "express decided views on automation, disarmament, urban renewal, and all sorts of other matters on which they are inadequately informed." Adds Bell: "If the function of the intellectual is to criticize, I say to the intellectual: specify-translate ideas into concrete programs...