Word: ghettoes
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...Since escaping from a wartime ghetto and making her way to Israel, Yochevet Mark had often been hospitalized for schizophrenia and depression ? but the doctors could never do anything for her. This time, her condition was so bad that she thought her son, in his army fatigues, was one of the uniformed Nazis who had terrorized her. "It gives me goose bumps to think of the awful look on her face," Mark says. He and a few other young psychiatrists soon discovered a disproportionate number of Holocaust survivors in Israel's mental hospitals, where they had been neglected for decades...
...KING HEDLEY II August Wilson's brand of big windy social drama is out of vogue right now, but he's still at the top of his game. In this, the eighth of his 20th century cycle, the residents of a ghetto neighborhood in Pittsburgh struggle against the social and economic realities of the Reagan '80s. A great cast, including Brian Stokes Mitchell, right, and Tony Award-winner Viola Davis, luxuriated in Wilson's impassioned language...
...faculty members is key to academic and social prosperity, according to history associate professor Catherine Corman. She and five other female junior faculty members who have young children sit in a “cluster” in Robinson Hall that they call the “pink-collar ghetto.” Much of her most productive informal input has come from this group, Corman says...
...Wideman, a two-time PEN/Faulkner Award winner, is too old for playground basketball, the game he loves. He is the perfect age, however, to drift back and examine his rise from ghetto prodigy to Ivy League hoops star to literary Brahmin. At all phases playground ball is there, teaching creativity, the difference between "solo triumph" and group participation, and other life lessons. There are too many basketball-is-like-jazz musings, but at its best moments, Hoop Roots brings a touch of Proust to the blacktop...
...CAMPUS: Harvard centers around vibrant Harvard Square, the Charles River and the green Longwood Medical Campus. Penn was built in the middle of the Philly ghetto. Sometimes I think that was on purpose...