Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helping the oppressed obtain their rights as the main reason for their following the road to the courts; rather, they say they are trying to find some certainty in an uncertain future. Nor do the swelling ranks of pre-meds talk so loudly about opening a clinic in a ghetto neighborhood and improving health care for the poor, or starting a practice in a rural community without a doctor, most would rather keep with the trend and stay in the more lucrative urban and suburban areas...
...Henry Fairlie, the British journalist who gave us the word "Establishment" as used in its modern capitalized sense, expanis the manipulation of language by politics without resorting to platitudes. Instead he concretely traces the changes in meaning words undergo as they are drafted into service by politicians and journalists. "Ghetto," for instance, in retaining its original sense of the legal restriction of a group to a quarter of a city, reinforces a group's sense of isolation when attached to a minority like blacks, even though they are not subject to any legal restrictions. The word "ethnics," as another example...
...pure word, defined by those who KNOW, rules. That explains Newman's complaints about the deleterious effect of the '60s; that explains Schlesinger's admiration for the reason and clarity that abounded in the predemocratic era of the Founding Fathers; that explains Fairlie's protest against words like "ghetto" and "minority," which he claims isolate groups in society. Purity of speech and word is possible only when all groups in society share equally in the national wealth. Where some groups receive an unjust share, the oppressed will naturally raise their fists angrilly and shout words--jumbled, incoherent, even ungrammatical...
...discourage advances from the Spanish Lady. Paranoia often took the place of ineffective remedies. There were those who thought the bug was the Kaiser's secret weapon, despite the losses his own troops suffered. In Poland, the source of infection was said to be Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. Those whose prejudices were more political called it the Bolshevik disease...
...resembles a fish hook ... To win your intended lover, hook the fishbone into his clothing. . ." Faith Cross, a backwoods believer, journeys to Chicago and becomes first a wholehearted whore, then an adipose housewife, anesthetized by hair spray and appliance hum, then, cast off and pregnant, the victim of a ghetto fire Finally back in Georgia, withered and maimed, she completes the seven ages of black woman (something like this seems to be in the author's mind) by be coming a swamp witch herself...