Word: ghettoes
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...looters, she writes, "were doing no such thing as expressing rage... They were having the time of their lives." The looters' behavior arose, she argues, out of the moral chaos that has resulted from liberals' misguided efforts to ameliorate ghetto conditions. All the liberal reformers have really managed to do is persuade the youth of the ghetto they are somehow disadvantaged and therefore cannot be held accountable for their actions...
...tempted to ask whether ghetto blacks and hispanics--who live in a world of burnt-out buildings, dismal employment prospects, and a welfare system that breaks up families and degrades recipients--really owe much allegiance to the moral system espoused by white intellectuals like Decter who live on the West Side by the river. How can she argue the looters are not angry at, not frustrated by the society that keeps them in the ghetto--particularly when she's never talked to them...
...result of injuries he received while in detention (TIME, Sept. 26), blacks and whites alike demanded the resignation of Justice Minister James Kruger for his callous handling of the case. At the same time, black unrest was fusing into a sustained campaign of resistance. In Johannesburg's Soweto ghetto, only 1,000 of 27,000 post-primary students and half their teachers showed up to register for the new school year; the dissidents are protesting the inferior system of "Bantu education...
...schoolyard, run-and-gun type of game. It's a well-constructed, deliberate game of jump shots; not full of slam dunks and blocked shots. Basketball is a serious ritualistic thing for kids in the ghetto, and it's such a sham for these kids that they sit in the stands and laugh and I can't say that I blame them...
...gruff but likable Lou Grant, who lost his newsroom job at WJM-TV, cut the mustard on a daily newspaper? Can gimpy Fred Sanford dance out of a ghetto junkyard and onto a variety-show stage? Will a web-footed survivor from Atlantis surface as this season's TV hero...