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Some of the slum families were consumptive, some "harmless" (a euphemism for touched in the head) and some were looked down upon for reasons of caste: tinkers, or beggars, or those who live on charity, in the tenements (once fine 18th Century houses) of Napper Tandy Street. Twisty Nellie, a professional beggar who always promised a prayer to her benefactors, explained with spirit: "Sure how could I say a prayer for each one of them separate! I'd be at it all the day. I says a little prayer for the whole huroosh." Twisty Nellie's story, like...
More than 1,500 Puerto Ricans arrived in the U.S. last week. The majority were beggar-poor, had no prospects of jobs or any training. They were the 1947 version of the Okies who had fled from the Southwest's Dust Bowl. Instead of riding the highways, the Puerto Ricans rode the skies. Most of them arrived in the bucket seats of converted Army transport planes, operated by charter airlines at bargain rates. By last week, the migration from their crowded, poverty-stricken land to the U.S. was at flood tide...
After 20 months of chicanery, double-dealing and delay in granting their thrice-promised independence, Koreans surely have every right to expect better of us than this. Korea is a rich country, forced by power politics into a beggar's role. The division of its country, giving the industrial half to Russia and the agricultural half to the U.S., is impoverishing it. Our economic strangulation of south Korea is creating lasting bitterness. Democracy has not failed in Korea, for we have never given it any chance to operate there...
Kenneth Koch's verse, as he himself describes it, struts "on a pilgrimage of music." Exhibiting a lively manipulation of language, Koch, however, sometimes plays vaguely with ideas that fail to fit the form be constructs so well. Two poems by Seymour Lawrence, "City Nun," and "The Beggar," present an honest attempt by their author to escape the introspective not that seems to have enmeshed most young writers. Both Koch and Lawrence received honorable mention in the Garrison Prize competition...
...Duke toured Europe triumphantly twice, sold over 20 million records, scored a Broadway show (Beggar's Holiday) and was an early invader of now easily invaded Carnegie Hall. Despite all these achievements, he likes to appear indolent. Says he: "My idea of a vacation is just to go home, lie in the bed, if the phone rings pick it up and tell them I don't feel like it." Some of his critics bemoan his constant concertizing in recent years, and the pretentious kind of symphonic jazz he has written for Carnegie Hall (New World A'Comin...