Word: ghettoes
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Gunter Grass, one of Germany's bestknown living writers, told a capacity crowd in Lowell Lecture Hall last night that Harvard is "a comfortable ghetto inside a sick society...
...Harder They Come. Starring Jimmy Cliff. The movie is already something of a cult phenomenon. And why shouldn't it be? It's got everything: Set in a Jamaican ghetto under sunny blue skies, the movie looks like a rough etching for a travelogue; a reggae singer on the up and up is bullied and spat down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a young sweet 'n innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition...
NORTH OF HARVARD Yard a temple--or a ghetto--has been built for pre-meds. The Undergraduate Science Center opened last year, and like many pre-meds here, the building sits uncomfortably between the domains of the traditional Harvard Science departments. Perhaps it says something about the distances between academic departments that a building as big as the Science Center could fall between them, and perhaps it says something about Harvard that a group of people the size of the local pre-med population could collectively find themselves the uncomfortable step-children of the Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biology Departments...
...case become difficult to follow. The language sometimes seems a travesty of James or Gibbon undertaking to describe Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Kempton simultaneously affects engagement and disdainful detachment, and the result occasionally leaves him drifting over the events in a kind of rhetorical blimp, watching the ghetto through opera glasses...
...title of your article "Ghetto Homesteaders" [Aug. 13] implies that the properties to be restored by Philadelphia City Councilman Joseph E. Coleman's Urban-Homesteading bill are only ghetto properties. This is not true. These houses are found in neighborhoods throughout the entire city...