Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without knowledge of English, the immigrant is trapped in Chinatown. As Lee says, "It's like a ghetto. People grow up and spend their entire lives in Chinatown. They are naturally afraid to go outside without any knowledge of English...
...week. Americans won't do that." Yet in March, when the INS rounded up 50 aliens employed by a Chicago janitorial firm, 150 people instantly applied for the vacated jobs. Many illegals have taken positions that would eagerly be filled by the least employable Americans: ghetto youth and unskilled workers...
...which fear that the Ford Administration may be less favorably inclined toward Israel than its predecessors. In big ads in the New York Times and the New York Post, the local chapter of the United Jewish Appeal has warned Jews that "the price of silence was the Warsaw ghetto. Bergen-Belsen. Auschwitz. Dachau. Buchenwald...
William Wendt is an Episcopal priest who has rarely flinched from trouble or feared innovation. His Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation in Washington, D.C., has become one of the most liberal Episcopal congregations in the nation, active in the affairs of its neighboring ghetto and experimental in its liturgy. It was hardly surprising, therefore, that after eleven women were ordained in Philadelphia last summer as the first female Episcopal priests, Wendt was the first to open his church to one of them-Australia-born Alison Cheek, who celebrated the Eucharist there last November. Not only had the church...
...music business, a system that generates stars out of the middle class. "Look at James Taylor," he says. "His father is dean of the Medical School at University of North Carolina. Or Carly Simon, of Simon and Schuster. You don't have to grow up in the ghetto any more to be a pop star. The pop star doesn't climb a ladder to success any more. Lots of people who attended elite colleges go on to become very good and successful professional musicians." Going to Harvard has neither helped nor hindered his musical development. In the face...