Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wholesale. As New York's liberal Senator Jacob Javits observed, the message was far more important for its "positive approach and tone than for the rel atively few organization changes it makes." It was also a tribute to the coun sel of Nixon's chief adviser on urban affairs, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose persuasive voice was largely responsible for the President's early - and forceful -guarantee that the subject of poverty will get "priority attention...
...precisely the kind of grousing that Candidate Nixon wanted the nation to hear during the campaign, and he sometimes quoted Moynihan. When it was time for the President-elect to deliver something more effective, he decided to offer Moynihan the chairmanship of the new, Cabinet-level Council on Urban Affairs...
...National Urban Policy. Besides the Job Corps, Nixon's principal antipoverty change was to transfer the highly successful Head Start program to HEW, turning the Office of Economic Opportunity into a kind of research and development center without specific programs. Nixon's explanation consistently reflected Moynihan's deep concern with the first few years of childhood development, an area in which he feels research has progressed far enough to warrant permanent legislation-unlike many other aspects of the poverty program. Said Nixon: "We have learned that intelligence is not fixed at birth, but is largely formed...
Motown is essentially oriented toward the urban black, his experiences, attitudes and aspirations. This orientation and the care with which they arrange their records have been nearly as important in the company's success as the talents of its artists and song-writers. In 1968, the company put even more emphasis on the life of the urban black, in songs ranging from "Love Child" by MISS DIAN A ROSS! and the Supremes to "Cloud Nine" by the Temptations. These are good examples of the type of social-comment song Motown produces. The songs do have comparatively relevant messages to impart...
...other hand there was a very hip continuation of an old trend on Atlantic. Joe Tex continued to develop himself along lines he can personally deal with and that also happen to be relevant to the contemporary urban social thing. 'Man, That's Your Baby" will certainly be one of the best of 1969 and Tex will certainly produce others like it. The hippest thing about "Man, That's Your Baby" is that it has none of the apologetics found in "Love Child" or theoretically, in "Cloud Nine," at the same time, it addresses itself to its primary audience, without...