Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left has increasingly shifted its emphasis away from university life and toward direct community action. As Ed Schwartz put it, "The left thinks of NSA as the Urban League of student organizations...
...city council primary, a supporter of urban renewal, Christopher A. Ianella, was followed closely by an out-spoken foe, Mrs. Katherine Craven...
...pressures of leadership in the cold war world; as the reaction of the nouveaux riches to the insecurity of constant acquisitiveness and precarious status; as the dislike by the remnants of the old Republican coalition (rural, midwest) for the New Deal generation and the Roosevelt coalition (urban, east); and as the hatred of the hyphenated Americans (the Italian-and German-Americans) for the second-class citizenship imposed upon them by World War II (by attaching Communism, the thesis holds, these immigrant groups not only gained revenge against a hated enemy of their home country but acquired needed prestige in America...
...Passed, in both chambers, the final version of a bill to create a Department of Housing and Urban Development, an agency sought by the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. The eleventh Cabinet-level post will assume all the functions of the present Housing and Home Finance Agency, in addition to other city-oriented responsibilities...
Song to a Scream. The change came from inside-with no help from any government or urban-renewal project. It began in 1948, when a few homeowners formed a neighborhood association and started sprucing themselves up. Others were shamed into following suit. In 1950 the association started an art fair, and the patrons it attracted noticed the neighborhood. There were the sturdy old houses just waiting to be worked on, and the prices were right. One artist, for instance, found a house for $4,000. All that was needed was a lot of energy and some money to put into...