Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting of NSM Sunday, students who had participated in the registration campaign called the experience "extraordinarily valuable" in learning first-hand some of the problems of urban slum areas, Miss Miller said. Many students also voiced surprise that the people they contacted were so appreciative of being approached personally to register...
MORTE D'URBAN (336 pp.)-J. F. Powers-Doubleday...
...Father Urban plays a nearly professional game of golf, drinks only the best Scotch and smokes Dunhill Monte Cristo Colorado Maduro No. 1's, and if he is seen frequently in expensive restaurants with men whose grain is coarse although their shirts be fine, it must not be thought that he loves the world too well. His is not a case of "Hail Mammon, full of cash." Not at all. Father Urban knows and loves his duty, which is to God. But he knows also that he is by far the best fund raiser, and indeed almost the only...
...Father Urban's brothers and superiors understand this, however, and Urban, forced to defer to mediocrity, suffers the torments of a good man who is not allowed to do as well as he can. There is, indeed, one black period when Urban is taken off the lunch-and-lecture circuit and set to scraping wallpaper in a drafty retreat house...
...dear, droll priest has cluttered up magazines (Father Juniper) and movie houses (Bing and Barry) for years. The work of J. F. Powers, a New Yorker short-storyist writing his first novel, is of a higher order. During this superior burlesque, Powers deftly shades his portrait of Father Urban so that at the novel's end, when the priest grows old and ill, the reader feels not the absence of a comic figure but the loss...