Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mere love of animals scarcely seems to account for the popularity of these books. It may be noted that most of the nature men are British and resolute mavericks, who have turned their backs on modern, industrialized urban life. Each is very much his own man in a world of courage, cunning, and solitude-qualities that invade the suburban commuter's mind in recurring fantasies of Mittyland. The pull of the books is the lure of a lost horizon, a kind of pre-Eden, with free men and animals sharing the primordial rhythms of Nature...
...more than compensate Cambridge for the financial blood-letting. While removing the heavy trucking now present in many residential areas of the city, the highway would at the same time provide access to a through route for traffic from the mills in east Cambridge. Along with the three major urban renewal projects now in the drawing board stage, it would theoretically improve both residential and industrial land values, as well as commerce...
...Lindenbusch, 53, had an uphill fight all the way, for he was reduced to fault-finding with an administration that had done a creditable job. Ray Tucker, 64, could point to an ambitious urban renewal program, a start on expressways, a successful $110 million bond issue for programs ranging from new street lights to a planetarium, an improved salary schedule for city officials-and, importantly, a happy way of rallying businessmen and newspapers to his causes. Conceding that Lindenbusch stood to lose by at least 25,000 votes-a margin they hoped would narrow as the G.O.P. gained momentum...
...lost the areas around the cities, areas we should have had," Scribner reported. In addition, he observed that the GOP did poorly in urban areas and Negro districts. "We lost among Germans, Italians, the Irish, and...Jewish groups. When you get through," he sighed, "there isn't much left...
More than ten years after the formulation of a plan for the Inner Belt highway, the most that has materialized is inaction and indecision. Particularly in Cambridge, where the road is a political deus ex machina for major urban renewal projects, indecision and factionalism prevail...