Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also unresolved is the problem of how the new institution will fit in with the now existing Afro-American School in Roxbury. Afro-American and urban studies will definitely be a part of the new school's program, but how or if, the Afro school will participate is still unresolved...
Already Roth's miniatures of urban Jewish life were selling to magazines. The collection of short stories, Goodbye, Columbus, won Roth the National Book Award in 1960 at the age of 26 and two years later the prestigious job of writer-in-residence at Princeton. There he discovered to his dismay that his students could not write. In addition, his marriage to an older divorcee collapsed after four years. Philip went to New York after the publication of Letting Go, a troubled novel that interweaves threads from his Chicago adventure, his marriage and his grim life as a graduate...
...seminar as authorized by the School, calls for an interdisciplinary systems approach to be applied to a broad urban problem, as defined by the instructor and students. The course, as so described and authorized, is at this time proceeding satisfactorily, and will concern itself with wider issues...
Breuning, visiting lecturer in Transportation had issued a syllabus describing his course, Planning 11-3b: "An End to Urban Violence," as aiming at the creation of a program to eliminate urban riots. Breuning called off Planning 11-3b when 100 black students arrived at the course's first meeting Feb. 7, saying they could not allow the course to be given at Harvard...
...instructor called a meeting of all interested students for the afternoon of Feb. 7. At that time he announced that he would give a seminar on how to develop an urban studies program at Harvard...