Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listed some of his Administration's domestic accomplishments-establishing the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, extending social security, a new program for medical aid for the aged, urban renewal, the U.S.'s first depressed-areas legislation, as well as the first civil rights bills since Reconstruction. Said Ike: "As the party of Lincoln, we Republicans have a particular obligation to be vigorous in the furtherance of civil rights...
...This show depicts the Negro as a foot-shuffling handkerchief-head," snapped Chicago Urban League Director Edwin Berry. "A lazy, soft-shoe jokester is an insult," added Joan Kehoe, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Both groups planned protests, and it looked like check and double check for Amos 'n' Andy, the radio duo born in Chicago in 1928, whose return in a filmed CBS television series had been announced by Chicago station WCIU. However, WCIU's President John Weigel is no man to get regusted. "When you try to expurge folklore," he retorted...
Gospel for the Hungry? But important as the urban mission is, Stringfellow writes, it is just one of many frontiers for the church-no more or less important than the university, the suburb or the technology lab. And on every frontier, the church faces the danger of conforming to the world "by accommodating the message and mission to the particular society in which the church happens to be, in the slums and in the suburbs, instead of honoring the integrity of the Gospel for all societies and for all sorts and conditions of men in all times and places...
Honorable mention went jointly to Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, and James Q. Wilson, associate professor of Government, for their book City Politics...
...next 40 years we must rebuild the entire urban United States. It is harder and harder to live the good life in American cities. There is the decay of the centers and the despoiling of the suburbs. There is not enough housing for our people or transportation for our traffic. Open land is vanishing and old landmarks are violated. Worst of all, expansion is eroding the precious and time-honored values of community with neighbors and communion with nature. Our society will never be great until our cities are great...