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They may also prove cruelly damaging to the hopes of many Negroes. Says Urbanologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "At a time when there is more evidence than ever about the need for integration, rioters are undermining the grounds for integration and letting all the whites say, 'Those monkeys, those savages, all Negroes are rioters. To hell with them.' This does nothing for the guy who works at the post office and is slowly getting ready to move out. He gets destroyed while the pimps and whores go on." Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox promptly made Moynihan sound prophetic...
...process, a new scientific diagnostician has been born. Not just a city planner, not just an educator, not just a politician, he is some of each-and something more. The "urbanologist" aspires to be a student of the entire city, an ecumenist of the metropolis, whose concerns go beyond brick and mortar to budgets and laws, souls and sensibilities. Just as the word urbanology is a cross between Latin and Greek, the science-or is it an art?-is a melange of many disciplines...
...many urbanologists, the problems of the city will not be solved until closer links are forged between core and suburb. University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade speaks of a "crabgrass curtain" dividing the two, declares: "Two divisive elements frustrate at tempts to master the metropolis-division of the metropolitan area on the basis of race, and division on the basis of city and suburb." Agrees New York's Lindsay: "Whatever strengthens the core city strengthens the suburbs, and vice versa." The problem, as Columbia University Urbanologist Charles Abrams puts it, is one of resources. "The wealth has gone...
Ouija-Board Sociology. "From his position at the key institution on urban affairs," says a top Administration urbanologist, Moynihan "has the greatest broker position in the world." Moynihan, to be sure, is not universally admired, nor are his ideas. Some critics, like the Rev. Henry Browne, a Catholic priest on Manhattan's upper West Side, accuse him of practicing "Ouija-board sociology," while a friend from the London days, Broadcaster Paul Niven, notes that he has a "natural instinct for self-publicity." Yet few have articulated the urban crisis so well, and few have put forth so many thoughtful...
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE The Rev. Martin E. Marty, D.HU., Lutheran theologian. Daniel P. Moynihan, D.P.A., urbanologist...