Word: neighborhood
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...protest generation wasn't. Nor did '80s antiestablishmentarians-turned-entrepreneurs feel much affinity toward a group of admitted joiners who perceived squareness as a virtue. That left the war veterans and youngsters like Feingold, now 62, who was taken under the wing of a brother in his Queens neighborhood in 1960. The man was a stickler for ritual and dragged Feingold up onto a Forest Hills roof at night so that he could recite in secret. But the then-apprentice has no regrets. He remains awed that "a man could walk up to another man and say, 'I need...
Bowers has lived for years in a black neighborhood on the poor side of the railroad tracks in Laurel. He runs a pinball and vending-machine company called Sambo Amusement. He loves NASCAR racing and cars in general and drives two classic baby-blue Ford Falcons. He attends the mainstream Hillcrest Baptist Church, where he has taught Sunday school. He gives generously to the poor, including a family who recently asked the church for children's clothing. "What you see on the news and what you see in the church are totally different," says former Hillcrest pastor Max Parker...
...which plot grows inevitably from place, and place seems utterly real. The most powerful impression a reader feels in these two novels is the sense, in a scene set in a chaotic emergency room or in the junk-filled scrubland between a black housing project and a shabby white neighborhood, that yes, this is what such a backwater would look like, sound like, smell like. And that this, as events of Price's long, heavy narration grind toward resolution, is how people sheltering in such a place would claw at one another and disintegrate...
...their own lives. Legislation like the Fair Housing Act of 1965 didn't mandate that black people must move into all white areas and integrate them. Rather, it was an attempt to end unfair and discriminatory practices so that if black people chose to move into a white neighborhood, they could do so in peace...
...easy, as well, to dislike Carter. Some of his Lone Ranger work has taken him dangerously close to the neighborhood of what we used to call treason. However, in The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House (Viking; 586 pages; $29.95), historian Douglas Brinkley's verdict on Carter is mostly affirmative. In the first place, Carter's Administration, Brinkley believes, accomplished far more than critics have admitted. President Carter achieved the Camp David accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, a normalization in 1979 of Nixon's China initiative, and other strokes. And Carter's postpresidency, in Brinkley...