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...person narrative. Near by, a class of sophomores listens intently as the teacher fires off volleys of French. Not a word of English is spoken. The same spirit of curiosity and dedication seems to flow through other rooms at Lincoln Park High School in Chicago, where students from the ghetto mingle with those from glass palaces on the lakefront. Says French Teacher Maureen Breen: "Something is very definitely happening in the air once these kids walk through those doors. We can all feel...
Indigenous ruburbanites have developed interesting ways to remind migrants of their presence. Inner-city inhabitants carry ghetto-blaster radios to announce themselves, but ruburban teen-agers favor, as the weapon of aural aggression, the 1973 Pontiac Trans Am with full-throat custom muffler. Rubber is applied to Main Street far into the night, accompanied by rebel yells and the shattering of beer bottles. Newcomers create different problems for the police. Although such naughty amusements are passe in the suburbs, the police chief of Harvard, Ill., had to ask the host of a nude cocktail party to pull the shades...
BARON JAMES: THE RISE OF THE FRENCH ROTHSCHILDS by Anka Muhlstein Vendome; 223 pages; $17.95 When James Rothschild arrived in Paris in 1811, he headed straight for the most fashionable part of town to rent rooms. At 19 he was leaving behind the suffocating congestion of the Frankfurt ghetto and embracing a city that 20 years earlier had become the first place in Europe to accept Jews without any legal re trictions. Young Rothschild was as drunk on the future as were the Parisians: abandoned the dietary laws, changed name from Jakob to James - Anglicisms were then in style...
Jackson becomes bitter when other black leaders, those he feels are content to serve as "trustees of the ghetto," dismiss him as opportunistic. "Part of our problem now is that some of our leaders do not seize opportunities," he says. "I was trained by Martin to be an opportunist...
Some of the humor is unnecessary and tasteless, such as when Blacks in a St. Louis ghetto steal the station wagon's hubcaps while Chase asks for directions, or when the teenage daughter of some ridiculously hick relative brags that daddy says she is the best french kisser. These stereotypical characterizations--while occasionally funny in the racist, sexist world of the National Lampoon magazine--are completely gratuitous in a movie of this type...