Word: ghettoese
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The slums and ghettoes of London have provided inspiration for generations of artists. Steven Berkoff's East, a hodge-podge collection of abstract scenes and monologues concerning one London family's daily life, draws on the squalid conditions and pervasive violence that spawned works from Oliver Twist to A Clockwork...
He reminds us that "Harvard is not the world," yet he fails to expand his perspective of Asian-Americans to include both the classmates he sees at Harvard and, for example, the many Asian youth trapped in Chinatowns and ghettoes, to whom inter-Asian gang warfare is oftentimes more a...
"I think it's very dangerous to put small subjects like my own into...little ghettoes, as it were," Alexiou says.
Like Roxbury and Dorchester and other urban ghettoes across America, East New York sits far away from the glitter of the center of the city. The term "inner city" is ironic--ghettoes like East New York, Bedford Stuyvesant and Jamaica, Queens in Brooklyn are about as far away as one...
College basketball in the East is tremendously overrated and overexposed. While great players come out of all areas in the West, everyone seems to think no ball player is any good unless he comes out of the New York or Philadelphia ghettoes. The only other semi-acknowledged (by these Eastern...