Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northeastern Megalopolitan Corridor," and it implies just what "megalo" means in medicine: an abnormal enlargement. Not too many years hence, the metropolitan centers of Washington. Baltimore. Philadelphia. New York and Boston will have crept so near each other that they will be one huge, headachy city. These urban areas already comprise better than 20% of the nation's population, account for almost 30% of U.S. manufacturing, 20% of its retail trade and 27% of the federal income tax take-and make for a horrible, continuing traffic...
...while since the average office opened at 8 a.m. Yet standard time, which is premised on such habits, has lingered on. Early-morning light is now a commodity traditionally considered precious only to farmers whose animals cry out for attention at dawn. The present-day American, becoming more urban every year, much prefers his extra hour of light to come at the other, after-work end of the day. So, at least, claimed New York State Senator Edward J. Speno last week in his introduction of a bill by which New York would operate on daylight saving time the full...
...years old, does not drink or smoke, hates perfume, and gets all her clothes, apparently, at an upholstery shop on Third Avenue. What to give her for Christmas? Black despair, then inspiration: she likes to read, and her taste would be exactly suited by Morte d'Urban, J. F. Powers' witty novel of a worldly priest. The gift giver visits a bookstore and returns well satisfied...
What he has bought, of course, is not Morte d'Urban but Persian Art, by Roman Ghirshman. The reason is not that Persian Art is a magnificent, lavishly illustrated study (it is), nor that Aunt is fascinated by the subject (she isn't). It is that Persian Art (Golden Press; 401 pp.) costs $25 and weighs 4! Ibs., and Powers' novel costs only $4.50 and weighs a paltry 20 oz. Until some publisher solves the problem by charging $40 for a novel printed on vellum, gift givers ashamed to say "$4.50 worth of Merry Christmas" will...
Cowan, on the other hand, takes what is essentially a negative view of the threat Baldwin poses. He appears to see it as tending to rock the boat a little too much--but Cowan seems to have little inkling that in urban Negro America the boat is actually sinking or was never built...