Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have long worried about the "crisis of freedom"; being freer in the U.S. than in any other country in history, with government, the professions and all walks of life open to them, the concern was that Jews would forget their traditions and simply merge with the population. Where the ghetto served to preserve Judaism, it was feared the American suburb might subtly undermine it. Since World War II, the spectacle of Israel?brave, threatened, struggling for survival against heavy odds?did much to avert this danger
...their own bosses," as Marquand points out. Some want to take meals with people by choice rather than by chance. Some are just plain tired of leading the boarder's life. And some want to be a part of the "real world" rather than live in a virtual ghetto of students...
...development of male-bonding--we've heard it all again and again and haven't learned a thing from it. We've been paired off with men, one by one, barefoot and pregnant and isolated in our own separate living rooms. We've never even had our own ghetto, OK, so who wants to live in a ghetto, and moreover we've all got 18 forms of contraceptives and shoes and jobs. And we've still got no community, no solidarity and no real power. Historically, the only real social change has been the product of pressure exerted...
...SUDDEN interest? Why has science fiction, after the long "ghetto years, suddenly been embraced by academics and publishing companies alike? Why are the young especially fascinated with the alternative worlds portrayed in the pages of Asimov. Herbert and Heinlein? Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow is a collection of fifteen essays that focuses on some of these questions and tries to provide answers. The authors of the short pieces are drawn from the top ranks of science fiction writing: Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, Alan E. Nourse, Poul Anderson and Jack Williamson. They bring their considerable talents to bear on the issues...
...solution to her problems. But Writer Getchell's plot line has plenty of unmarked curves in it, and it twists past a curiously mixed group of characters who hitch briefly onto Alice's odyssey. Director Scorsese, having proved adept with the claustrophobia of a big-city ghetto in Mean Streets, demonstrates an ability to discover a similar but more comic oppressiveness behind the fagades of the wide-open streets of the Southwest. He leaves plenty of room for quirky tangents to develop as the film proceeds on its wayward course...