Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fears then were that a liberalized Rules Committee would mean that a batch of New Frontier legislation would be waved through the House. They were certainly not very well founded. Even as expanded, the Rules Committee in the 87th Congress held up 24 bills, including Administration proposals on an urban-affairs department, a mass-transit act, broad federal aid to education, and a youth-conservation corps. More important, other priority Administration bills were either bottled up in other committees or defeated on the House floor...
After this, the audience knows that nothing painful, nothing honest, nothing real will be inflicted upon it. In Oliver twisted, the Thieves' Kitchen becomes an urban Sherwood Forest, with Robin Hood Fagin teaching his pickpocketeers to rob from the rich and give to the deserving poor-themselves. The grim workhouses, stews and drinking dens of London become playgrounds for boys with a taste for adventure. The biggest laugh of the evening comes when Fagin paternally growls at his charges, "Shut up and drink...
Recruiting of volunteers will begin in early summer, with a force of 200 to 500 corpsmen anticipated by August. The recruits will be used in migratory labor camps, Indian reservations, mental hospitals, urban and rural slum schools, prisons, recreation centers and the like...
...Urban Projects...
Morte d'Urban, by J. F. Powers. A burlesque with love, on the foibles and faith of a modern priest consigned by his order to today's money-raising lunch-and-lecture circuit...