Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white Italian nurse ?whom he adores?and a black postal worker whose struggle to break into the middle class prompts bitter wrangling. Jones grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. At 13, he hoped to be a professional singer. Instead, he followed the lead of older ghetto kids and got into drugs; by 17 he was stealing in earnest. Now 25, Jones is a bright street hustler who stutters in frustrated rage at his tantalizing inability to outdistance self-defeat. He managed to kick heroin during his only prison term and has stayed off it since...
Time sweeps past this domestic fortress. Anya marries and bears a daughter named Ninka. Then comes the war. Solidity is undermined, cracked, carried away. Anya and her husband are fenced within a newly decreed ghetto in Vilno. Her father is killed by the Germans, her husband is arrested and disappears. But her mother hides in a large oven and escapes the periodic searches by which the old and the sick are weeded...
Rumors circulate: children are to be liquidated next. Anya manages to spirit Ninka out of the ghetto and place her with a Christian family. Then it is the entire ghetto that is to be emptied of people. Vilno's Jews are herded from their pen and divided into two groups, one for extermination, the other made up of people strong enough to work...
...Blahs, many thousands of Americans are finding a new way to assuage money worries, insomnia, angst, neuroticism and neglect of liver and lungs. Their new-found route to tranquillity is yoga. Long regarded as a freak clique, yoga practitioners in virtually every community in the country, from suburb to ghetto, Y.M.C.A.s to churches and American Legion halls, are discovering that yoga, shorn of incantatory mysticism, is a highly practical way to relax tensions, tone up the physique, reduce the embonpoint and turn off tranquilizers, cholesterol-laden food, even smoking and drinking. In short, yoga, no longer an ogre, is rapidly...
...science of Marxism is not readily apparent in the shop or the ghetto. Without a student core there is never a revolutionary movement. There has to be a vanguard party," Drummond said