Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although based on standard and sometimes tired jokes, the songs often had last night's audience roaring with laughter. Particularly successful were "Bureaucracy Calypso," a slap at modern urban government, "Living in the Twilight," which describes the life of the gangster associated with government and has suspicious echoes of West Side Story, and the "Accusatory Bop," a wild rock 'n roll bit in the grand style...
...ship might also point the way to the solution of a growing national problem, since 70 per cent of the major urban communities in the United States border the ocean or the Great Lakes. According to Silverman, the per capita production of garbage has risen in recent years from two or four pounds a day, while it has become increasingly difficult to find suitable locations for incinerators and dumps...
...Charles Snow. "There is too little of it. It is too narrow both in spread and concept." Under fire is the sheltered snobbery of Oxford and Cambridge, whose 18,000 students so easily inherit British power and glory. Equally resented is the impersonal lecture system at the 19th century urban redbrick universities, whose 46,000 students often feel like social second-raters. Higher education has become a major British political issue. The Conservative gov ernment is about to produce a report, three years in the making, that is expected to recommend even further expansion, and the Labor Party cries that...
Moreover, although he has approved of some sections of the civil rights bill now before Congress, he strongly opposes the public accomodations section considered so important by Negroes. Perhaps the philosophy and problem of Urban League member Goldwater are expressed best in this quotation from The Conscience of a Conservative...
...repeal the income tax totally. It's an evil, but we obviously need major sources of revenue," and this discontent motivates his opposition to spending programs. "Spending cuts should come before tax cuts," he declared this year, while voting against the Youth Conservation Corps, federal participation in urban mass transportation, increases in the area redevelopment program, and legislation authorizing the training of the unemployed...