Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working on the Michigan DailyNot only produced a love a journalism (one of his unrealized ambitions is to own a weekly newspaper in a semi-urban community) but an intense desire to understand and participate in every aspect of an operation (he started off on the "editorial side" and later became circulation manager and then business manager of the summer daily). At the University of Michigan Hunt also developed a taste for public affairs in general and education and education in particular...
...favorable) review of the book, George Orwell called Miller a "Whitman among the corpses," and the phrase nicely conveys the real flavor of the novel. Parts of its are very funny, but in general--especially in sexual passages--Tropic is commenting on the death of the flesh in modern urban society...
Miriani maintained that Detroit was in good shape, pointed with pride to his record as mayor; he cited a $47 million urban renewal program with seven major projects under way, economies that had saved the city some $25 million, the completion of the $70 million Cobo Convention Hall and Arena. Cried Miriani: "Detroit is on the move to a destiny of greatness...
...Federal City Council. They pleaded their case for a better Washington in the White House and to the Congress, raised $500,000 to start modernizing the city's shabby central shopping district. Their efforts paid off: by 1960, Congress had provided king-sized enabling programs for urban redevelopment, federal building construction and road-building authority in the Washington area...
...panel will be Richard C. Lee of New Haven, Conn., Ben West of Nashville, Tenn., Raymond Tucker of St. Louis, and John F. Collins of Boston. Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 of Cambridge will also join in the discussion, presented by the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies Dec. 7, in Sanders Theatre...