Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most pathetic victims are the children. Of the 70,000 homeless children in South Korea, 10,000 are in Pusan. Some are mere toddlers, squatting numbly in the gutters, devoured by flies by day, by rats at night. The older children get along by stealing, begging, pimping, shining shoes. Most of them, like Choi Jung Mook, fear another winter...
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed...
...Homeless. The fact is that these "aims" of education are not aims but escapes; "the uneasiness that comes of letting major issues go by default has fallen like mildew on our schools." The real aim of education cannot be "different from the total purpose of life . . . The realm of education may be like a field within a farm: it may cultivate a special crop. But the crop must still serve the purpose of the whole farm...
...other characters are sketched in lightly but clearly: an ex-German Communist so embittered that his only need is to kill Russians; a gentle Ukrainian professor dreaming of the purity of his suppressed native language while he entertains homeless orphans with fantasies of great feasts: an eleven-year-old Ukrainian girl who volunteers as a spy for the Nazis; an SS general, coldly calculating even in defeat, who traps the collaborating schoolteachers of Kharkov, and delivers them to the mercies of the Russians...
...first years, Israel had spent far beyond its means. The state had pursued a policy of "ingathering" foreign Jews-the world's sick, homeless and unwanted -that was in principle irreproachable but in practice ruinous. Its population doubled in four years. In that four years, Israel had to import $800 million worth of goods while its exports paid for only one-eighth that amount...