Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, the first Negro to serve in the Senate since Reconstruction, was a Nixon favorite to take over the Department of Housing and Urban Development, but last week Brooke refused the job. Besides feeling some restiveness about Nixon's approach to minority problems during the campaign, Brooke cherishes his independence in the Senate. A new possibility for HUD may now be Urbanologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat...
Escape Route. A case in point occurred during Lyndon Johnson's recent visit to Manhattan to address the National Urban League. Lady Bird was being feted at a private party, a sit-down dinner for 18, and the President decided to drop by to pick her up. That simple excursion from the Hotel Pierre to an apartment on the West Side turned into a major production, the sort that has frayed Johnson's patience-and is certain to fray that of his successor. As L.B.J. described the caper to friends afterward...
...renewed interest in the song styles of the English music hall and rhythm and blues-one of the album's most attractive features-is slightly tainted. In the hollow Yer Blues or the sentimental While My Guitar Gently Weeps, the longing for roots is too calculated, like the urban sophisticate's nostalgia for the primitive...
...UNPRECEDENTED problem is to learn how to control a mass technology that is systematizing a society, as well as its machines. As automation destroys jobs and urban sprawl destroys communities, as corporations form conglomerate mergers and government bureaucracy expands, the individual is left with little control over how he can make a living, where he can live, for what ends he will work, or where he can take his complaints to be heard. Government must moderate technology's effects without itself becoming a behemoth...
...local and community groups. Aggrieved individuals can more easily approach a local agency governing education, poverty, or law enforcement. More important, an agency with first-hand knowledge of a city can deal more efficiently and wisely with its problems than can lockstep reform from Washington. New Haven's enlightened urban renewal, for example, has been slowed down by the legislative morass of Federal aid programs. Goodwin wants to establish minimum Federal standards to prevent abuse, but then, give money to the cities and let them work...