Word: ghettoes
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...which fear that the Ford Administration may be less favorably inclined toward Israel than its predecessors. In big ads in the New York Times and the New York Post, the local chapter of the United Jewish Appeal has warned Jews that "the price of silence was the Warsaw ghetto. Bergen-Belsen. Auschwitz. Dachau. Buchenwald...
...music business, a system that generates stars out of the middle class. "Look at James Taylor," he says. "His father is dean of the Medical School at University of North Carolina. Or Carly Simon, of Simon and Schuster. You don't have to grow up in the ghetto any more to be a pop star. The pop star doesn't climb a ladder to success any more. Lots of people who attended elite colleges go on to become very good and successful professional musicians." Going to Harvard has neither helped nor hindered his musical development. In the face...
...reached a boiling point in February when the private banks, apparently fed up with the chronic budgetary ills of Albany and New York City, refused to bid on bonds issued by the state's Urban Development Corporation. The UDC, created by the legislature mainly to finance low-cost ghetto housing, could not pay off $104.5 million in one-year notes. The state was forced to undertake an exceedingly costly rescue operation to save the agency from bankruptcy...
...nice to see so many Americans open their kind hearts to donate food, clothing and money to those refugee children who are being brought to the U.S.? But what about the starving black child in the ghetto, the poor Indian on the reservation, or the ragged-clothed youngster in Appalachia? Where can they flee to? How many special funds are set up for them...
...ambiguous figure in the Simple stories: a proud member of the Arts and Letters Club, she strives constantly for "culture" (white culture) and a house in the integrated suburbs and becomes the Uncle Tom of the show. But Joyce also represents Simple's ambition of rising beyond ghetto life and his job as a clerk--the hope which makes waking up in the morning worthwhile. Neither Cross's script nor Davis's acting adequately portray this other side of Joyce, the loving wife whom Simple treasures even as he mockers her upper-class pretensions...