Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unstable. Perhaps the college communities which are the intellectual centers are also the most perceptive about the problems facing the U.S. and realize that without some changes now American society will deteriorate. When there is so much unrest on the college level and in the cities over racial problems, urban problems and the war in Viet Nam, perhaps it is time to act to alleviate this unrest rather than stifle its expression so that it will merely erupt later...
...UNIVERSE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). John Secondari's excellent program on the growing urban crisis and various plans to make life livable in the "Cosmopolis: Big City 2000 A.D." Repeat...
...enough to argue that such work risks intellectual compromise. Of course it does, but the greater risk is a government without intellectuals. Who wants, for example, a CIA run entirely by soldiers and policemen? In 1965 Robert Wood, head of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, considered the problem that such involvement means for intellectuals: "Given the uncertainties of actual influence possessed, its effectiveness and appropriateness, and the welter of motivations that compel the intellectual, it is not surprising that his present role is tentative and tormented." Now that he is back in Cambridge after three years...
...host and organizer was Malaysia's Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. A British-educated, golf-playing Moslem, Rahman is convinced that the predominantly Islamic nations of Africa and Asia must take a fresh look at "illogical beliefs" that interfere with their economic and social progress. Like many sophisticated urban followers of Mohammed, he is appalled, for example, by the almost total ignorance of contemporary business and financial practices on the part of rural Moslems. Often picking up their misconceptions from local ulamas, or wise men, these villagers, among other things, refuse to buy life insurance on the ground that...
...behavioral characteristics of Negro life, but its ideas have already provoked a lively professional debate. Many sociologists and anthropologists argue that the supposed correlation between the American ghetto and the African village is tenuous at best. Black Sociologist James Elsberry, assistant director of New York's Center for Urban Education, contends that the black man's distinctive cultural patterns are due not so much to his African past but to his long alienation from the hostile white American society around...