Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the Wine-Sellers Buy, which opened in Manhattan last week, is essentially a sentimental domestic morality play of wayward youth, a play that is a dramatic refugee from the 1950s. EXcept that here the characters are black and the setting is the Detroit ghetto. The bad influence arrives in the form of Rico, a wonderfully reptilian pimp who means to apprentice Steve to his trade by having the lad peddle Mae in the streets. Will Steve choose the life of vice? Will he break his old mother's heart, not to mention...
...iron rule of color-blindness would seriously endanger much of the progress made since 1968 in the numbers of minority students in universities. Test scores of minority applicants from ghetto schools and of lower socio-economic background, cannot be expected to come out as high as those of students from suburban schools and environments which stress educational achievement, especially when the tests continue to have a strong middle-class bias in content and value...
...truth about Goldwyn was more interesting than any one-liner. He was, for example, the only producer in history who was named after one of his own corporations. Born in a Polish ghetto, he received his first American name - Goldfish - from an immigration official when he arrived in New York City in 1896 as a 13-year-old. Under it, he prospered as a glove salesman and entered the movies as a partner of Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille. In 1913 they made The Squaw Man, one of the first feature-length films produced in Hollywood. The trio...
...reporter covering our trip preparations that the Chinese "are interested in the Latin community." We were also the youngest group to visit China. Excluding our adult escorts, mostly in their thirties, our average age was 17 years. We were all inner-city youth from low income, "poverty-stricken" ghetto neighborhoods...
...that defendants dropped incriminating evidence-usually narcotics -thereby justifying arrest. There are local variations. Los Angeles recently had a rash of "smell" testimony after one police officer successfully justified a search by saying that he had smelled marijuana on the defendant. In New York, judging by some recent testimony, ghetto residents often leave their apartment doors open with bags of heroin "in plain view." This allows policemen who just happen by to make arrests...