Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Sizer will go on teaching his course in "British and American Edu cation since 1870." But his real job lies in raising money, unifying the patchwork school and refocusing its mission. Sizer hopes to put even more stress on practice teaching, but in urban schools rather than the almost exclusively suburban schools that now feed off Harvard. Given the disarray of big-city schools-Boston's are a compelling example-it is high time for Harvard to help out. Happily, Sizer seems to be right on target...
...Lindner assimilated the hubbub of urban New York, he combined his natural bent for satire with his impulse to depict city bustle: "You see women on the streets all wrapped up like candy packages," he says, and he is the artist of the concupiscent street scene, of crass crowds, of penny-ante popular life. "Macy's is the greatest museum in the world," he says. "You can study the people, the objects, the smells. Even the chandelier department is a sort of phony Versailles...
...Mosque Inc. than Wilson. Acknowledging that black nationalism is a legitimate part of American politics. "In fact as vile and mundane as proposals used by white immigrants," Kilson was pessi- mistic about the possibility of fashioning a better state by a separatist movement. The lack of social structure in urban Negro populations makes it almost impossible. Kilron said, to organize effectively outside the system...
...unlikely that altered representation will produce votes for the kind of measures most Congressmen from cities favor: the Administration's mass transit bill, an Urban Affairs Department, civil rights legislation, and welfare programs. Unlikely, that is unless the state legislature in question favors such programs. Malapportionment in most state legislatures today favors rural areas, and the Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the many cases challenging the situation...
Cities have been traditionally slighted by a malapportionment, but even with an equal-population rule, state legislatures play a large part in deciding what kind of representatives an urban area will have. Until the composition of most state legislatures is changed--and the Supreme Court has not yet ruled on their apportionment--Congressional representation from most states will retain some rural bias. Because the courts and legislatures move slowly, the Court's recent rulings will probably have little effect until after the 1970 census. By that time, most central cities as well as rural areas will have lost large numbers...