Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accept relief-but they often hand over their money to credit gougers (poorly educated, many cannot read the large print, much less the fine) for 21-in TV sets and for the chrome and aluminum baubles they have seen on the screen. Most of them live crowded together in slum tenements, but family ties are so strong that relatives from the South are always welcome-even when their visit turns out to last for years. Used to tossing out garbage to be devoured by the ever-present mountain pigs, some newcomers throw garbage out the windows; when told that garbage...
...everybody else can have a fine time--everybody with enough brains to be here in the first place. "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" makes a British slum saga seem like the musings of a man lying on a hill, head on fingers. Finney is a good and thoughtful man; he spends his allotted hour-and-a-half looking for a livable, just philosophy of life. The fact that he pursues life's clusive truths through a variety of well-photographed beds and bars keeps us wide awake, but you guys have searched for the same things in Harvard common rooms...
...Angries who have cut their literary teeth in Britain's welfare state, perhaps the angriest is a onetime Nottingham slum kid named Alan Sillitoe...
...tanner for a smoke, rages at hunger and helplessness, beats up nagging Mam, or stares at the wall. When the back rent piles up, it comes time for a "moonlight flit"-the household goods piled on a barrow and trundled at midnight to a vacant tenement in another slum...
Resnick called the number, found Clemmine Lee Jackson, 19, a soft-spoken Texas farm boy who had recently come to Phoenix to live with his older brother in a shantytown slum. Like the others, Jackson at first declined the invitation to be a murderer. But in the course of their two talks, Resnick discovered that Jackson passionately wanted to start a car-wash station of his own. The promised $200-enough to start his business, Sam pointed out-did the trick. Clemmie agreed, but absolutely refused to do the deed alone. He enlisted his brother and three other Negro youths...