Word: evictions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rippling Comedy. In the early stages of the novel, Scott plays the antics of his couple and their anomalous place in Indian society for laughs. The only threat to their continued self-imposed exile also seems comic. Mrs. Bhoolabhoy, the fat and temperamental hotel owner, is trying to evict the Smalleys so that she can raze the old building. With the timid and ineffectual...
...determined strengthening of Zionist control and the extension of Jewish landownership. The Israelis retained British Mandatory Emergency Regulations, the repressive laws of wartime, to deal with the Arab population--despite the Zionists' adamant opposition to those regulations imposed before statehood. These measures, however, made it possible to evict Arab farmers from their fields, to place unreasonable curfews on villages, to banish certain individuals, to place others under house arrest, and to jail still others without trial and often without any apparent reason...
...submission to money. And when the characters do not give in to the Yankee dollar, other forms of domination are there to demoralize them--some rich group or figure to control these tenants' lives. The petty bourgeois landlord, played by James Young, is always present, always ready to evict those who hate him. So the question, for these tenants ultimately becomes one of self-respect; if they cannot rise out of the yard, they must learn to live without abandoning hope entirely...
Psychologically he and his fellow tenants were "naked and disarmed" when the hospital began its secret mission to evict them, tear down their building and replace it with a 27-space parking lot. As a small boy, Worthy had accompanied his physician father on rounds in the hospitals of Greater Boston, acquiring a reverence for these institutions of healing. Most people share a similar attitude toward hospitals, and so they are unprepared to believe that a medical complex or, for similar sentimental reasons, a university or church can, in its relentless drive to force tenants out of a building, resort...
...zoning board in a three to two split, voted on November 18 to evict the group from the Old Cambridge Baptist Church because theaters are prohibited in the residential zone where the church is located, Jack Drummey, an official in the Cambridge public relations office, said yesterday...