Word: ghettoes
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...Yiddish theater, which Howe shrewdly compares to Italian opera (where the emphasis is on virtuoso performance rather than content), was not shy about amending Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was set in a Polish village, and Friar Laurence was recast as a Reform rabbi. The famous performers originating in the ghetto included Al Jolson, the Marx Brothers, George Jessel, George Burns, Eddie Cantor, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice...
...undergraduate Mormons here inevitably know each other; six live in Kirkland House, which Thomas calls the "Mormon ghetto." Yet even those in Kirkland rarely join each other outside church functions. Carlyn Christensen says she makes a point not to "stick around with Mormons; there are too many other interesting people." While none of the Mormons mind being identified as one, most are wary of being typed as a Latter-Day Saint, or, in Peterson's words, of wearing their Mormonism on their sleeve...
...exception of the callous (though not evil) lieutenant there are only good people in Adele's world--her father is loving, her landlady adoring, and the people she comes into contact with are friendly and far from malicious. Even in her final extremity, alone and dying in a Barbados ghetto, a black woman takes pity on her and nurses her back to health...
...last May by the Library of Congress indicated that an attempt to get the overall jobless rate down to 3% within 18 months would push inflation back up to "a 12% to 13% annual rate" initially, and even more later on. One reason: long before employers hired the last ghetto black or unskilled high-schooler, severe shortages of skilled technical and professional workers would develop, leading to low productivity and inflationary wage boosts. Such a program would be self-defeating, because unrestrained inflation eventually causes job-destroying recession-by pricing houses out of the reach of people who might want...
...adds, "People get the impression that all these black kids are 99 years old and have been playing together in the ghetto for years. That's just not true...