Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adult converts to a great spiritual vision. He grew up in Paris, barely nourished spiritually on the lukewarm Protestantism of his mother. When he enrolled at the Sorbonne in 1901 during France's rich and corrupt Third Republic, rabid French anticlericalism had turned the church into an intellectual ghetto. At the school itself, a narrow-minded empiricism ruled out serious study of spiritual matters. One day, as Maritain walked hand in hand through a Paris park with his Jewish girl friend Raïssa, the two vowed that if they could find no meaning to life beyond the merely...
Last week, the Polish government commemorated the 30th anniversary of the resistance with a 25-minute wreath-laying ceremony at a massive black Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto. Said Marek Edelman, 53, the only leader of the uprising who still lives in Poland: "We proved that a few people, hungry and poorly equipped, could resist, and that the Germans were not a superhuman force...
Like American Negro blues, reggae is black ghetto music, born of the misery of island shanty towns. It first became commercialized in the early '50s when "sound systems men"-itinerant disc jockeys who became reggae's first record producers-traveled from village to village with amplifiers and a stackful of primitive recordings made by local musicians. By 1964 Singer Millie Small's reggae recording My Boy Lollipop sold 6,000,000 copies, scoring in the top ten on both sides of the Atlantic. But it was not until Johnny Nash's Hold Me Tight...
...should baseball, with its sluggish metabolism and lack of crunch, retain its hold on the national imagination? The answer lies partly in its seasonal associations. No one is immune to the vernal equinox. The same jump of the blood occurs on ghetto streets and Little League diamonds, in bleachers and in front of the TV screen. Baseball implies an earthly benignity: clear skies, vacations and, above all, no school...
Police say that the surge in ownership of guns-most of them unregistered-started after blacks burned and sacked large parts of the city's ghetto areas in the 1967 riots. "It seemed like everybody went out and bought a gun," one officer recalls. Now that so many guns are handy, the argument over the kitchen table at 2 a.m., which might once have ended in a punch in the nose, has a good chance of ending with a bullet in the gut. The police log offers these samples: an argument in the Red Dog Bar, a disagreement...