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...York, there are aging Jewish immigrants whose ideas of social justice were formed by the Russian Revolution, and whose heated arguments Gornick remembers from her own Bronx childhood. The East Side of Manhattan was politically unique to an Italian who grew up there. "The right-wingers were the New Dealers," he wrote, "and the political conjugation went on from there: Social Democrats, Socialists, Communists, Trotskyists, Anarchists...
...morning at Morris High School, a gothic fortress rising above the ruins of New York City's scarred South Bronx. All but the main entrance is sealed; in front of it is a security guard, ready to turn back anybody who tries to enter without proper identification. Inside, five more guards equipped with walkie-talkies patrol the halls and cafeteria in the 60% Hispanic, 39% black school. Most classroom doors are locked after classes begin, and study halls, once a favorite spot for fights, have been shut down. The dingy lockers that formerly lined the corridors have been removed...
Stuyvesant High School, the Bronx High School of Science and Brooklyn Technical High School are the three 'special schools' in the New York City public school system. To be admitted to any one of the three, a student has to take an entrance exam, but if he gets in he will probably receive one of the finest high school educations in the country. Myriads of intelligent talented New Yorkers have become successful and famous by working hard in these elite schools and going on to top-rated colleges around the country. As the New York City public school system declined...
McLaughlin returned to Rose Hill in the fall of 1970 to become an assistant coach under Richard "Digger" Phelps. The Digger's father worked as an undertaker. McLaughlin's father was a New York City policeman, who worked his way up to the rank of detective in the Bronx district attorney's office...
...BRONX, N.Y.--Harvard basketball coach Frank McLaughlin grew up near Woodlawn Cemetery here in the Bronx, and after the first half of Saturday night's game with Fordham it looked as though his cagers would leave the Rams with the epitaph "Fordham Basketball--R.I.P." Instead it was the Crimson that rolled over and played dead, giving up a 39-29 halftime lead to lose the game...