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...fairy tale allied itself with other types of mass culture that saved it from cuteness and trite morality throughout the Victorian era. It never joined forces with another persistent and repressed literary genre, pornography--which this book terms "the ultimate cultural ghetto"--but it did identify with "vulgar" elements like spiritual mediums, Nursery nonsense and thrillers...
Nowhere was this reality more dramatically symbolized than during Brandt's visit to Warsaw in December 1970. There he paid his respects to the memory of the 500,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto who were killed by German soldiers during the war. At the simple granite memorial, Brandt fell to his knees in a heartfelt act of atonement and prayer. He often said: "No people can escape from their history...
...Black schools are not inferior simply because they are black," Bell said, citing "inherent, educational advantages in black schools, particularly for poor, ghetto blacks...
Avraham Harmon, president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and former Israeli ambassador to the United States, told the crowd, "The 900,000 children in Israel are not living in the Warsaw Ghetto. We shall resist...
Lucas Alexander, the doctor who has been Martha's old flame, comes to join her in the Golden Age ghetto, and without a false touch of pathos, Miss Douglas writes a love story as passionate as it is asexual. Old age, she suggests, is a wicked spell cast upon lovers and life lovers, and she stocks her story with appropriate witches and ogres-a Lesbian nurse concealing a record as an abortionist, a nursing-home manager smarmy with greed and Bible-Belt piety...