Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Urban Affairs...
...sure glad there are people left who can laugh. The killing of the Urban Affairs bill [March 2] seemed to me to be a pretty gloomy event. I thought it was needed; I thought large numbers of U.S. cities needed help in slum clearance, sanitation, unemployment, and welfare problems. But, as TIME gaily pointed out, it was probably all a cheap Administration political maneuver...
...defeat of the Administration's Urban Affairs proposal reflects not only inept politics, but also the revolt of the voters against more and bigger Government. We're just damned tired of attempts by the Executive to control everything from Washington; we Hoosiers think Kennedy is power mad and that he and his Administration are a genuine danger to our country...
...leaders last Friday, Niebuhr called for protests against McDew's arrest. Besides Niebuhr, signers of the telegram were A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; James Farmer, national director of CORE; Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP; and Whitney Young, executive director of the Urban League...
...Business Man and Melville in The Confidence Man aimed scathing, satirical barbs at the rising commercial spirit of the 19th century. Williams finds an ethical void at the heart of urban industrial civilization and poses against it the values-the honor, gallantry and chivalry-of the dead agrarian Southern past. "Let there be something to mean the word honor again," pleads Don Quixote in Camino Real...