Word: ghettoese
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THAT WAS the tragedy of Robert Kennedy's last years -- the awful tension between his surfacing humane anger and the dictates of practical politics, a tension he stretched to the utmost limits. Robert Kennedy walking in the ghettoes was responding to more than the imperatives of politics; the rage welling...
A great cross-section of occupations is represented as well; antique dealer, an egg salesman, a grocery store owner, a hermit from the backwoods, a clown, a few auto mechanics, a few hell's angels, ballet dancers, policemen, the works. The photographers have haunted such honky tonk spots as Revere...
What he neglected to mention to the group of young engineering majors who lingered on his words was that jobs would be displaced by this bit of technological progress. Urbanologists have estimated that in the next several years many thousands of California Chicanos will be driven into already overcrowded and...
Moynihan has been heavily criticized in the black community since the publication of the "Moynihan" Report' in which he argued that the economic problems of blacks in American ghettoes is due to matriarchal domination of the black family.
But the mood of the march was more spirited than mournful. Most of the marchers were young, perhaps because it was a workday; but it was not the typical demonstration of white, middle-class radical students. The majority were unmistakably Puerto Rican, and the ghettoes they marched from were their...