Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moms appears as Grace Teasdale Grimes, a resident of a Baltimore ghetto who, with the aid of her man friend Forthwith (Slappy White), helps her next-door neighbor get elected mayor...
...does this by rallying the support of a lot of black college students with a political speech that combines about equal portions of sentiment and gags. The kids, enchanted, get out and stump for Grace's neighbor friend. It may not be much, but at least it has Moms...
...this contumelious parlor rat race, Author Brady suggests, is that it permits respectable citizens to cheat and browbeat with impunity as they seek to amass paper fortunes and drive other contestants into bankruptcy. "It is a game," in one buffs words, "in which everyone loves to hate his neighbor." The Monopoly Book, however, gives the player more of a chance to rely on intellect than odium. Starting from the beginning, when each player has an issue of $1,500 in scrip, Brady gives advice on which property group to buy and develop, how many buildings...
...graduate, and a friend were doing research on a sharecroppers' union that surfaced briefly in Alabama during the Depression. Visiting the state, they stumbled across Nate Shaw, then 84, a onetime union member who had served twelve years in prison for resisting the trumped-up confiscation of a neighbor's property back in 1932. A single question, "Why did you join the union?" spurred the black man into an eight-hour answer. More than 120 hours of taped reminiscences eventually followed. As Shaw poured out his life, he and Rosengarten quite literally made history...
...much." The sharecroppers' union told blacks that they could some day run their own affairs, and Shaw joined. But a white landowner coveted what Shaw had, and the future was too slow in coming to help. Shaw tried-and failed-to stop sheriffs deputies from stripping a neighbor as they planned to strip him. His reward was prison and, afterward, a world whose pace was faster than his steps...