Word: ghettoes
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Samson has been tested in five Atlanta elementary schools and given to ghetto kids who had fallen far behind in learning tests. "But," says Austin, "when we fed the children this drink every school-day morning for four months, their learning curves came right up." The kids stopped sleeping in class. Their attentiveness increased, and truancy declined. Teachers said that at last they could teach-instead of referee fights...
...define the word like Joe Higgs--the man who trained both Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff and can claim with some legitimacy that he invented the music form. Reggae, Higgs said in a recent interview, is political. "Reggae means comin' from the people. Everdy t'ing, like from the ghetto. When you say reggae, you mean regular, majority. It means poverty, suffering...
...seem like such a long time ago. Most of the problems and personalities of that day have changed, but to those who grew up in the sixties, they were facts of life. The body count from Viet Nam, every night from Huntley and Brinkley, interrupted by cigarette commercials. Ghetto riots in the summer didn't make the news unless they were big ghetto riots (the little ones were expected.) July was too hot for big anti-war protests, though; demonstration season was late spring and early fall. Joe Namath's Jets has embarassed the NFL, while the Mets...
...result, Marchais' French Communist Party, about 700,000 strong, is still ostracized in what French politicians call le ghetto, outside the mainstream of national politics. Increasingly it has reverted to more traditional hard-line postures: it has vehemently opposed the Common Market, revived its loyalty to the Soviet and Eastern European parties, and cracked down on dissent within the party itself...
Southerland's ingredients are familiar. But what she makes of them is remarkable. A lecturer at Pace University and a poet, she compresses a lifetime of births and deaths and suffering and love into just 181 pages. Her prose deftly captures the cadences of ghetto speech (by turns garrulous, captious, earth-smart), and her spare imagery avoids all sentimentality. Instead, as its biblical title suggests, Let the Lion Eat Straw is a graceful hymn of love...