Word: ghettoes
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...early SDSers were reacting on one level to perceived shortcomings in the world that nurtured them. In a sense it was selfish--Ivy League ruminations about political alienation, glorified as an answer for the poor man and the Black. The students were grandiloquent on paper and naive in the ghetto; certainly personal guilt over their own relative security in the face of hardship elsewhere helped inspire some student leaders. As both fans and critics of the New Left have noted the Jewish tradition of leadership in American and European radical movements, in addition to the Jews' unusual concern for other...
...into the city's Great Synagogue, which was then set aflame. The following Sabbath, hundreds of men--including--three of Pisar's cousins--were taken to an open field and shot. With this introduction, the Jews remaining in the city were ordered into a designated slum section; the Bialystok Ghetto was formed...
Pisar's recollections of the ghetto remain vivid. It was here; on his thirteenth birthday, that he was bar mitzvahed in a shabby synagogue in full sight of the pacing Nazi guards. It was here that he first met Ben, the lifelong friend who accompanied him through the camps and with whom he made a solemn pact to survive. And it was here that his father kissed the family goodbye and left home for the last time. A few months later, the ghetto was razed and those who survived were put on a train for the camps...
...stint in a Slavic salt mine. The following Georges are doomed to play follow the leader through the centuries, picking up the trash of kings and sultans, knights and janissaries. The last George graduates from shoving around middle-class furniture; now he repossesses the tables and chairs of ghetto blacks who default on their payments. In his off time, he accompanies the dying Mrs. Glazer to a Mexican Laetrile clinic where Elkin's patented mixture of slapstick and " strong emotions is administered...
Born in the "West End" ghetto of Chester. Pennsylvania, Kenyatta--unlike most law students--spent his childhood attending a segregated elementary school. Soon after his fourteenth birthday, he was ordained a Baptist minister at Chester's Calvary Baptist Church. He has been a minister for almost 25 years now and has spent most of that time as a civil rights activist. His activism has led to threats on his life by both the FBI and "Black Mafia" drug dealers, he says...