Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 20th century, middle-class Suburbia was a reality in England, and Social Historian C.F.G. Masterman was perhaps the first of a legion of urban critics to draw a bead on it. Each little red house, he wrote in 1909, "boasts its pleasant drawing room, its bow window, its little front garden . . . The women, with their single domestic servants, now so difficult to get. and so exacting when found, find time hangs rather heavy on their hands. But there are excursions to shopping centers in the West End and pious sociabilities, occasional theater visits and the interests of home...
...suburbanites, more than their urban or rural brethren, tend to want to get things fixed. Lakewood, Calif., 22 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, was just another boondock of 5,000 people ten years ago when the boom thundered. A development group poured $200 million into 17,000 homes ($8,000-$11,000) and a big shopping center. As residents took hold, the sense of frustration that came from long-distance county rule and the absence of locally administered services flashed into a new, self-starting energy. Lakewood, with a present population of 75,000, incorporated itself in 1954, sank...
...Mining and Industrial Tycoon Harry Oppenheimer. It had become "difficult if not impossible" to raise money in London for any South African venture, echoed Sir Charles Hambro of the powerful Union Corporation; to restore its credit abroad, declared Sir Charles, South Africa must seek "more harmonious relations with the urban native population" and "satisfactory outlets for the legitimate aspirations of all sections of the population...
...Electronic Living." Much-advertised Washington Square Village burst upon New Yorkers' consciousness about two years ago in a flossy brochure that spread out a tempting smorgasbord of the good urban life: "A new conception of city living . . . privacy and space heretofore undreamed of in New York City . . . electronic living," and so and on. "If you read that," mourns a discontented W.S.V. tenant (rent: $353 a month), "what would you expect? You'd expect the best of everything...
...coup was a total surprise. Despite four weeks of sporadic anti-Menderes demonstrations by students and cadets in Ankara and Istanbul, few had suspected that the ebullient Premier was really in jeopardy. His party commanded an almost 3-to-1 majority in the Assembly, and outside the sophisticated urban centers, his popularity among the peasant population remained high. Until the radio blared its stunning news, many Turks had never even heard of General Cemal Gursel, the longtime professional soldier who led the revolt...