Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...budget has aroused more curiosity and controversy than any of its predecessors. More Americans are interested in the 1967 budget because it contains more figures of direct relevance to more people than ever before as a result of Washington's increasingly expansive Great Society programs, from medicare to urban rebuilding. The Johnson budget is controversial because there is a widespread feeling that the uncertainties of the war in Viet Nam have made it even more tentative and inexact than budgets customarily are-and that the President has had to use every trick of ledgerdemain to hold down the deficit...
Like New Shoes. Now, in such large urban school systems as those of Miami, Detroit and Washington, D.C., in adult-education programs in Philadelphia and New Orleans, and in numerous colleges, English teachers are trying not to erase "down home" accents but to add standard English as a "second language" -to provide Negroes with what a New York City school official calls "a new pair of shoesyou wear your shiny new ones for a job interview and put on your old comfortable ones when you get home at night...
...virtual disappearance of oldtime network radio programming has effectively driven local stations into high-class performance. There is nothing that radio does not supply to someone, somewhere. Foreign-language broadcasts blanket some urban areas with an endless variety of information and music. Detroit's WJLB, for example, runs programs in twelve foreign languages, including Arabic and Maltese. Hundreds of stations keep the turntables spinning on AM and FM, providing baroque and Beatle, Cliburn and country music. There are advice shows and talk shows, and, most notable of all, there is great emphasis on news coverage. And, unlike TV, radio...
Second, the report claims that the race issue will become "politically neutral" with the next ten to fifteen years, allowing Republicans to attack the South's old rural and new urban economic problems: "As the race issue recedes as a political issue, economic questions will come to the forefront, and will have as much weight with the lower income whites as it will with the colored electorate." Even if race does cease to be a political issue, (which seems unlikely, since it has remained an issue in the "emancipated" North for a century) Negroes identified overwhelmingly with the Democratic Party...
Smith is the executive director of the Citizens' Advisory Committee, a privately financed agency which advises the City on urban renewal matters. It was from this position, Crane claimed, that Smith--"a professional snooper"--had been "peddling around information to undermine a good man and a good administration. . . This fellow's been going round town souring people," Crane bellowed to a silent and stunned audience...