Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fictional name of a Washington, D.C., elementary school that has an enrollment of about 400 blacks and 50 whites. Recently, at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, she presented her conclusion: the whites-most of them children of parents who moved into the neighborhood because they believed in integration-were usually anxious, fearful and isolated...
After school black children play in the organized recreation program at the school, while whites tend to play at home. Whites avoid school sports. Says Schafft: "Not one white child belongs to or plays with neighborhood athletic groups. One senses an underlying anxiety on the part of white parents and children about competing with blacks in arenas where competence might be questioned." In other words, they are afraid that the blacks will outperform them. Yet Greentrees whites often imitate black mannerisms when playing with other whites. Reports Schafft: "Finger snapping and bottom twisting accompany...
...Rocky, an ordinary hero, if given the opportunity, can rise to any heights. The secret of his success, and that of this warm, funny, most sincere film is older and more forgotten than any other dream: quite simply, they believe in themselves. Twice each day Rocky stops at the neighborhood pet shop to crack a joke, trying to get the attentions of Adrian, an unmarried, unsought "loser" who stands without a word, feeding the caged birds. "Hey, I hear she's a retard," the loan shark's driver mocks Rocky. But under the fighter's clumsy, tender patience, Adrian emerges...
...scenario becoming familiar to millions of Italians, the situation was saved largely by the Communists. Mobilizing neighborhood committees throughout the city and 80 Communist youth federation centers, the party called out 350 private trucks and 1,500 volunteers. In two days, an estimated 10,000 tons of garbage were cleared in a campaign led by the Red volunteers, and joined by many street cleaners who shamefacedly returned to work...
...Indian families, among many of Appalachia's people and in our urban ghettos, which seem to grow and grow, one finds children who are hungry, malnourished, plagued by a variety of untreated illnesses and certainly not catered to-not at home, not at school, not in the neighborhood. There are even children in this country in this century who are born in circumstances no better than those obtained in 1775. If medical knowledge was, at best, primitive at the time of the American Revolution, the first-rate medical care now available for pregnant women and children...