Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOWN STAIRCASE. Bel Kaufman's novel about a high school teacher in a Manhattan slum has been turned into an entertainment of high spirits, its sheen unscratched by the book's real point...
...Beatles are the ultimate symbols of the posh, respectable vie boheme. They live in the suburbs that the Rolling Stones Knock in their songs. They have never dropped out from society. They have never had to slum it to gain a sly, detached, enlightening line of sight on the status quo. They are idols to the hippies, prophets to the establishment, and fetishes to the teeny-boppers...
...money "goes down the sewer," notes Chicago Urbanologist Philip Hauser, if Head Start graduates are then put-as they usually are-into classrooms that are not prepared for them. Most job-training projects also receive high marks. Four Government "skills centers" in Los Angeles have provided training for 840 slum residents, finding jobs for 85% of them since the 1965 Watts riot, while Boston's ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development, Inc.) has put 2,800 people into jobs or training since it began its drive a year...
...just like a junkie." She may become even more like a junkie. Many pimps double as pushers and give samples to their protegees. Eventually, the majority of the girls, thanks to their pimps, wind up as hopeless narcotics addicts, working New York's slum flophouses for 50? a "trick...
...superior example of its genre. Much of its impact comes from Director Mulligan's eye for setting and atmosphere. His Calvin Coolidge High is an actual Manhattan school building, its rust and raunch unretouched for the camera, and his neighborhood is a horrifyingly typical New York slum street. His supporting cast, notably Sorrell Booke as the exasperated principal and Florence Stanley as a guidance counselor in love with instant evaluation, is ideal. So is Fred Karlin's musical score, in its ironic blending of baroque blandness and jungle throb...