Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 300 greater Boston urban renewal foes heard calls for a united front against "the Boston bulldozer" last night at an "urban renewal teach-in" sponsored by the Mission United Neighborhood Improvement Team (MINUT...
...order to foil the BRA, John Harrington, President of SHOC, Self-Help Organization Charlestown, called for a defeat of pro-renewal City Council members, and the enactment of a law that would allow a neighborhood to veto an urban renewal project...
...state levels, seem to realize the city's significance. One who does is Ford Foundation's Malcolm Moos, Eisenhower's best speechwriter and a man who comes perhaps closer than anyone today to fulfilling the function of Republican ''thinker." Says Moos: "The great urban areas represent places which the Republican Party can homestead. Let's take the carbon monoxide out of the air, let's solve the water shortage, let's clean up the rivers, let's move against corruption and crime, and let's put our schools in shape...
looks preshrunk, forlorn, anonymous, an obsequious undertaker in a tight black suit-except that dark eyes of mourning seem to have been burned into his head with a blowtorch. He is pale, wary, jumpy, an urban night monkey traveling in the jungle of cities from Paris to New York. The combo behind him breaks into a jazz beat, and he punctuates the air around him with staccato jabs of his hand mike. Nervously he whips the mike cord, and it coils and undulates like a black snake. At the end of it, his slight body stiffens in a convulsive spasm...
...trouble is that Playwright Orton did not set out to write a comedy of manners but a Stygian comedy of morals. Dipping his brush in the bile of Swift, he has managed to paint only an urban pastiche of Tobacco Road...