Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manners of the urban singles scene can be as perplexing as the mating dances of the graylag goose. Psychotherapist Al Manaster observed a singles bar called Butch Maguire's in Chicago and detected four distinct sets of rules at work. "In the front section near the window, it is the garden of narcissism," he explains. "People go there just to be seen, not to make out. At the bar there is heavy hitting. You stand there to get picked up. The pinball section is heavy macho, with horseplay between the sexes. In the back room is backgammon, where the more...
...town." Jimmy Carter is bringing blue jeans and an occasional touch of country to Washington, but the Government and diplomatic corps have never mothballed their dinner jackets. Still, the abrasions of sexual politics are a distinctly new development in high Government circles. Patricia Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, remarks pointedly: "The President doesn't kiss the male Cabinet members when he sees them." One male member
...ruins and rainswept mountain peaks are fine for inducing the creeps. But when it comes to high-grade macabre, there's no place like home. Take the London house furnished by British Author Ian McEwan, 29, in this tight, unsettling first novel. The place stands almost deserted amid urban rubble, one of the few survivors of a highway plan that went nowhere. In it live Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom, a reasonably normal array of siblings ranging in age from 17 to six, and their mother, who is dying. The earlier death of the father and the mother...
...more than a function of youth or poverty, crime, and particularly violent crime, is perceived as a function of race. What most urban dwellers have intuited can be statistically shown--black people account for a disproportionate amount of violent street crime. Were it only a result of the crippling poverty that keeps 31 per cent of American blacks below the Federal subsistence level, crime statistics would correlate; yet, although in 1976 blacks accounted for 31 per cent of property crimes (such as burglary), they commited 60 per cent of the robberies, 40 per cent of the aggravated assaults, and about...
...Levin, 44; made a name for himself as president of the Detroit city council in the early 1970s by taking on the federal bureaucracy?and winning. He did so by deciding to tear down thousands of abandoned houses that had been taken over by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and had become breeding grounds for crime. When HUD's lethargic officials threatened to prosecute Levin and Mayor Coleman Young, the two city officials ordered the housing razed anyway?and HUD did nothing. Challenging Republican Senator Robert Griffin this year, Democrat Levin again campaigned against overgrown government...