Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showed that local pupils are year by year falling farther behind the national norms in reading and math. The release of these findings brought charges-most notably from Barbara Sizemore, a dynamic black who is Washington's new school superintendent-that the tests themselves are "culturally biased" against ghetto children. But Raspberry was dissatisfied with that familiar argument, calling it "a sort...
...seven governors. Brimmer used the job to disseminate controversial, exhaustively documented opinions on black banks (they were more a symbol of black achievement, he thought, than a meaningful source of capital for economic development), minimum-wage laws (they worsened black unemployment by hindering the hiring of unskilled ghetto teenagers) and black capitalism (it was doomed to remain marginal unless blacks could develop large businesses that could compete in predominantly white markets). Now, with almost six years of his 14-year term remaining, Brimmer has resigned from the board to return to the "unlimited freedom" of the corporate and academic worlds...
...make matters worse, not only was I a California, but I was reared in that affluent ghetto of Beverly Hills. I grew tired of people who would ask me what movie stars I knew intimately, or if Jed Clampett lived next door. Little did they realize that I lived on the south side of the tracks...
...streets" or on the "land" or wherever--denotes a kind of selfimage which inhabits a fantasy world belonging to undergraduates. A professional academic ought to have known better. You can't cruise Broadway all night or spit verbal napalm at the world from a fire escape in the Jewish ghetto and spend the rest of your time giving lectures and writing for learned and prestigious journals. You can try it, of course, but your experience in edge city, of bleakness and rancor and the humor they generate, becomes a shallow, vicarious one. That at least had been my impression...
Bruce's routines tapped the ghetto idiom and jazz slang of the fifties black jazz musicians with whom he gigged, scored junk and shot up. He mined the radio shows and grade B movies of the thirties and forties to forge his early mordant satires. Finally, Bruce found his most comprehensive metaphor for human experience in the hustling world of show business itself. As Goldman reconstructs and distills the creative process, Bruce's greatest work would invariably pose the question...