Word: ghettoes
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...that handles 16,000 births a year, the incidence of stillbirths, and deaths within seven days of life in infants weighing 2.2 lbs. or more has dropped from 22.8 per thousand births in 1967 to 9.6 per thousand in 1977. Many of these problem births were from the Harlem ghetto, and Administrator Dr. Solan Chao points out that quite a few of the high-risk patients were drug addicts or alcoholics who had not been to a doctor for prenatal care. The Los Angeles networks face a similar situation, caring for a largely black and Chicano population. Yet infant mortality...
...proportions of men and women doing volunteer work become more nearly equal, the feminist objection to volunteerism as a female ghetto may recede. In any case, the needs to be fulfilled transcend the politics of sex. And of age as well. The talent pool of retired Americans, growing larger each year, is an immense resource that should be exploited more, to staff day care centers, for example, and to perform more sophisticated jobs...
...rally is in a Chicago ghetto school; the cheerleader is none other than the Rev. Jesse Jackson (he was ordained as a Baptist minister). His style is a combination of razzle-dazzle and Southern revival meeting. But the message is a very basic version of the old Protestant work ethic: work hard and aim high. In corridors where punks push dope, Jackson pushes hope. Project EXCEL, a tough self-help regimen for students and parents alike, which reached 21 schools in Chicago, Los Angeles and Kansas City during this past school year, is turning the old ghetto battle...
...special mainly because it's in South Jamaica, a not-so-quietly festering black ghetto in the borough of Queens, the borough that is supposed to have only Archie Bunkers and no ghettoes. South Jamaica is a singularly depressing place, famous as the home of the Friday Night Riot--the one that starts up every Friday in the summer at 9 p.m. sharp, the one that the storekeepers learn to set their watches by before they finally decide to sell out and leave for good, the one that you rarely read about in the newspapers because nobody ever gets killed...
...opening credits, and as the show unfolds, that cliche takes on new meaning. There is graphic violence, to be sure: bloodied heads; a lone youth being attacked by three others, one of them swinging a baseball bat; an unflinching look at a junkie mainlining. And the street toughs and ghetto dwellers who provide the sole narration converse in four-and twelve-letter words that many movie theaters, not to mention TV sets, have never amplified. To view and hear all this is not easy, but it should not be missed; parental discretion is a poor reason for dissuading people from...