Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, the south end of the lake will be a slum," says San Francisco Attorney William Evers, a longtime Tahoephile. Along the northern shore, where prosperous Californians and Nevadans used to settle for summers of boating, fishing, hiking and mountaineering, a sprawl of jerry-building has sprung up to scar the scenery and threaten Tahoe's crystalline water with sewage...
Commissioner Ford hotly opposes the bill because it proposes to aid education by categories-for example, a percentage of each state's federal money would be earmarked for city slum schools. As Ford sees it, this violates state control of education: it takes from states the power to spend the money as they please. Under the Tenth Amendment, states are regarded as responsible for getting Americans educated. (Education is unmentioned in the Constitution, and "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution" are thereby "reserved to the states respectively...
Thanks to closed-door policies of their parishes' middle-class past, many slum priests have to overcome open hostility in their neighborhoods, notably among young people. Before Father David Kern, 34, a former social worker, took over St. Ann's in The Bronx in 1961, the big parish yard had been kept locked at all times. "The first thing we did was to open the gates," he recalls. "At first, the kids came in to see what they could wreck. Windows were broken, but it was more important for us to establish identification with these kids than...
Balanced books are an Episcopal parish ideal. Most slum churches have huge deficits, and mission priests must rely heavily on the generosity of their bishops. The Rev. Robert Cromey, 32, of the Mission District Presbytery in San Francisco, gets strong support-and $30,000 a year-from Bishop James A. Pike. A Brooklyn-born graduate of New York's General Theological Seminary, Cromey believes that "our basic problem is cracking the neighborhood. The measure of our success is not how many people you bring to church but how much impact you make." Cromey's mission has made...
...Functional Parish." Slum priests freely adapt the worship of the church to fit the needs of their parishes. Boston's Father Sotolongo offers his Latin-American congregation plenty of liturgical splendor, with vestments, incense and sung Masses. Father Cromey in San Francisco holds evangelical preaching-and-singing services in housing projects and on street corners. Pragmatists rather than radicals, these priests are searching for new concepts of what the church should be. The Rev. James Jones, 36, of Chicago, for example, believes that Protestantism must create a new kind of "functional parish" uniting city groups sharing common interests. Father...