Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly, though, Russia is no longer the passive pastoral society that quivered before Stalin. The Kremlin will increasingly feel the pressures of an urban culture that is no longer resigned to an indefinitely receding Utopia. Communism's Kafka-and-abacus stage is already being overtaken by its Pasternak-and-hi-fi era. Affluent Communists might not be any easier to live with. But they would certainly have more to live...
...Browsing. If the peasants' pristine ways have changed little since the Revolution, Russia's cities have been largely created by Communism. With industrialization, the urban population, now 116 million strong, has quadrupled in 30 years. But even second-generation city dwellers seem restless, disconnected from their environment and one another. Amid jostling, unsmiling crowds on the streets, in bookstores where the buyer cannot browse, in restaurants where the customer is as insignificant as a hat rack, life in the capital has a disordered, rough-edged, strangely impersonal quality...
...Chicago's growing population of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, it operates a neighborhood house, complete with medical and dental clinics and a job-referral program. It set a team of educators to writing new Sunday-school texts that would fit the educational and cultural backgrounds of impoverished urban children. The society's mission extends to all levels of the city: it sponsors a middle-income housing program, backs a thriving Christian drama group, has two workers on the staff of big corporations studying the relationship of Christian ethics to business ideology...
...Luther's time, and that the church must be willing to attempt new ways of serving the world. While technology and industrialization change the face of society, the church remains trapped in a parish structure that dates from about the 8th century. In certain urban areas, Benedict would like to abandon the idea of the parish as a geographical unit, instead set up small, cell-like units of people linked by intellectual or professional interests...
Price predicted that the Court's ruling will favor the Democratic party. It will take representation away from the Republican rural areas which are over-represented and give it to the predominately Democratic urban areas, he said...