Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sadistic violence as public entertainment," they tell us. The presence of these words in the platform implies that President Eisenhower's administration has been responsible for all these, just as Frank Church suggested in his keynote address that the Republicans had been spending Federal funds on deodorants instead of slum clearance or schools...
...known what they wanted for some time. They admit quite candidly that they want to pass all the bills the President vetoed during the last eight years, and quite a few more besides. They want to see what the Federal government can do for the unemployed, the Negro, the slum-dweller and the old man (not the "senior citizen"), if it really puts its mind and money to it. The Democrats do not, it appears, regard GOP warnings that this kind of behavior reduces the freedom of the individual with any great seriousness...
Expresso Bongo is the slum to stardom story of a London Presley-in-the-rough, depicted with total amorality. Adapted from his own play by British novelist and playwright Wolf Mankowitz, the film removes the glittering facade of show business for a behind the scenes view of the world in its dog-eat-dog reality. The almighty pound weaves in and out of the script, permeating the atmosphere and the characterizations...
...improve the effectiveness with which we administer these policies." He discovered that formula months ago, but it has taken him several more to adjust his entire platform to the curious slogan, "positive, progressive conservatism." With as little mention of how local committees are to provide the initiative for financing slum clearance and unemployment relief as the Democrats made of how their program of five per cent growth without taxes is to work, the platform restates a by now very familiar Republican rejection of Federal subsidies and "artificial" stimulus of national growth...
...this excellent first novel, Pittsburgh-born Author Goran ranges familiarly through the yawning tenements and squalid streets of his slum, and even drops an unsentimental tear when bulldozers in the 1950s level it to a field of bricks in prep aration for the sterile rectangles of public housing. With the death of the slum, Goran makes an effort at redeeming his unsavory hero; it does not quite come off, compared to the snarling realism and cool, street-corner observation that shapes the rest of this story of Ike-o's growing up. The raucous garbage heap of Sobaski...