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...been interrupted by service in Europe or in the Pacific: the men from the Pacific theater sometimes still had that yellow pallor that came from taking atabrine, an early anti-malarial drug. A boy down the hall from me in Weld had escaped with his mother from the Warsaw ghetto. That fall the indoor gym for a while was filled with cots to acommodate the sudden influx of returning soldiers--occupation troops from Europe or MacArthur's command...
When people are trapped in a hopeless situation, is it kind to give them false hopes to live on, or is it cruel? This is the dilemma stumbled into by Jacob, a middle-aged Jew in a World War II Polish ghetto. On an impulse, Jacob claims to own a forbidden radio on which he has heard that the Russian army will soon be near enough to liberate the ghetto. His neighbors, desperate for more news, rally around to cajole, flatter and protect him, forcing him to compound his first fabrication endlessly...
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...Endowment for the Arts. Its purpose: to bring art to the countryside-and also bring forth the creative talents of local teenagers. "We wanted to give rural children a chance to use their imaginations," says Arts Board Executive Director Jerrold Rouby, "the same way urban mural programs have got ghetto kids involved in art." In two years some 300 youngsters, working under professional artists-in-residence, have taken up paintbrushes...
Warfield's thoughts echo those of many sociologists, who note that sports -and entertainment-have traditionally been used by minorities to fight their way out of the ghettos and into the mainstream of American society. In their turn, Irish, Jewish and Italian athletes and entertainers fought, ran, sang and joked their way into a society previously closed to them. The same journey is now being undertaken by blacks. Ironically, the very success of black sports stars has served to focus aspirations in the black community on athletics, a trend that social scientists-as well as thoughtful black athletes-feel...