Word: ghettoes
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...Harvard's special relationship with Roxbury could not be without suspicion on the community's side. Universities--Harvard included--have often looked on ghetto schools as places to do studies on, but not to aid on the schools' own terms...
...made a career out of understanding his origins. The eldest of nine children, Taj (born Henry Fredericksin New York City in 1943) lived first in the Jamaican ghetto of Brooklyn but mostly grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father, a noted jazz composer and arranger of West Indian descent, introduced his son to the likes of Meade Lux Lewis. Cow Cow Davenport and Leadbelly at an early, age. His appetite whetted. Taj sought out the early master Blues artists such as Willie Brown, Charlie Patton and Kid Bailey. His pursuit of the music of Southern country blues men developed almost...
...have long worried about the "crisis of freedom"; being freer in the U.S. than in any other country in history, with government, the professions and all walks of life open to them, the concern was that Jews would forget their traditions and simply merge with the population. Where the ghetto served to preserve Judaism, it was feared the American suburb might subtly undermine it. Since World War II, the spectacle of Israel?brave, threatened, struggling for survival against heavy odds?did much to avert this danger
...their own bosses," as Marquand points out. Some want to take meals with people by choice rather than by chance. Some are just plain tired of leading the boarder's life. And some want to be a part of the "real world" rather than live in a virtual ghetto of students...
...development of male-bonding--we've heard it all again and again and haven't learned a thing from it. We've been paired off with men, one by one, barefoot and pregnant and isolated in our own separate living rooms. We've never even had our own ghetto, OK, so who wants to live in a ghetto, and moreover we've all got 18 forms of contraceptives and shoes and jobs. And we've still got no community, no solidarity and no real power. Historically, the only real social change has been the product of pressure exerted...