Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking on "Private Vice and Public Virtue in Urban Politics," Banfield stated that "the most striking characteristic of political systems in cities is the extreme decentralization of formal authority." It is this "myriad of separate authorities" that creates the essential problem for an official--gathering together enough authority to carry...
Instead, Harvard must face its responsibility and tell the truth to a nation that has been gulled into believing that urban fallout shelters offer real protection in war. It must refuse to build, and do so with such clarity and force that there can be no inference that the decision was born of sloth or niggardliness...
...West Side Story goes wildly, insufferably wrong when it insists that society is entirely guilty, that the teen-age hoodlums are ultimately innocent. Worse yet, the picture becomes wildly, immorally sentimental when it attempts the apotheosis of alley rats, broadly suggesting that they are the Patrick Henrys of the urban proletariat...
...theologian who fused strains of European romanticism into a new definition of Judaism. Certainly Gordon had a romantic sense of the limits of rationality, and a romantic belief in the necessity for personal experience as the source of religion. It is also easy to see that his anti-urban theorizing in the manner of Owen and Fourier, and his very German conception of nationality have contributed much to the more romantic and unfortunate aspects of modern Israel...
...suppose a Marxist analysis would classify the Europeans as a sort of feudal aristocracy, the Indians as the bourgeoisie, and the Africans as the not-so-urban working class oppressed by the other two groups. The trouble is that such a "Marxian" analysis neatly coincides with the racial division. And this is the only real threat to a temporarily stable situation--that the Congress, or some other faction, might rouse the latent hostility a large proportion of the African population bears toward the other races, and turn out a government which has created a remarkable spirit of cooperation among...