Word: ghettoes
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...society go by too. It pretends the tabloid atrocities on TV news shows are aberrations. It either closes its eyes to the human street litter -- the homeless, the junkies, the insane -- or blames them for not getting with the program of self-help economics. It largely ignores the ghetto, where the black underclass has built its own furious culture on the slag heap of Great Society failures. It discounts much of the young white working class, in tattered towns and trailer parks, who feel left out of bland, sitcom America...
...going to participate in a great spiritual renaissance. What I have found instead is that a traumatized psyche has combined with a self- congratulatory ethos to distort the true meaning of the Jewish tradition. Hardly a day passes without my wondering if we will ever progress beyond the ghetto mentality that repudiates dialogue with the best of human thought and culture. Retaining one's sanity and belief in the future is a constant challenge here...
...Hartman. "They wanted to create an indigenous, secular Israeli. Religious concerns were ceded to the ultra-orthodox, who have never understood the need for Judaism to incorporate democratic values." Because Israeli society failed to develop a compelling spiritual option to replace the victim-oriented philosophy of the East European ghetto, Labor's present leaders are constantly beholden to a religious perspective antithetical to all they value. As a result, they regularly lose both religious and electoral battles. "They are wonderful when talking to Barbara Walters," says Hartman, "but miserable when it comes to touching tradition-bound Israelis...
...caring eyes, gained converts to a program called De Madres a Madres -- from mothers to mothers. Her grass-roots scheme, hatched with a colleague from Texas Woman's University and underwritten by the March of Dimes, calls for training mothers from the barrio to reach out to the ghetto's endangered women. Texas mothers, particularly Hispanics, are among the least likely in the U.S. to receive early prenatal care. So Mahon has been arming volunteer moms with information to help them save their neighbors' babies. The volunteers not only persuade pregnant women to seek prenatal care but also find them...
...which gave them shelter. There were a lot of fights, informers, subversion. They could not possibly become a real political force. What they did was very brave, but it couldn't work. We had to reach out to a more respectable, middle-aged generation, come out of this social ghetto, out of the church, out of Berlin and out of highbrow theories. We had to - appeal to engineers, doctors, nurses, teachers and bricklayers...