Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rochester, Sheen demonstrated his concern for local poverty by naming the Rev. David Finks, 36, as his "vicar for the urban ministry" in charge of slum problems. Finks has been closely allied with a local Negro protest organization set up by that professional agitator, Saul Alinsky. The group has been demanding that the Eastman Kodak Co. hire 600 Negroes from poverty areas. Despite his appointment of Finks, Sheen has refused to take sides in the quarrel-but he has pointedly urged city business leaders to provide more jobs for the city's Negro ghetto...
...perhaps some of the cause hereditary?" After searching for answers in scientific literature, the physicist recently told a meeting of the Commonwealth Club of California that he found "only unconvincing assertions that carry no sense of certainty." This "environment-hereditary uncertainty," he says, prevents an intelligent attack on city slum problems and may be contributing to a decline in the overall quality of the U.S. population...
...what Executive Vice President Rev. Timothy Healy calls "a dump-but a dump on fire with enthusiasm." The enthusiasm is generated by Dean Harry Rivlin, lured away from the City University of New York, who is shunning undergraduate "teaching methods" courses for future teachers in the city's slum schools, is sending them into those schools as freshmen to learn under fire instead...
...horror, the shame, the depravity of it all? Obviously, mere unskilled exposition won't do the job. Ah, yes. Contrast. With the corrupt poor. Or the innocent wealthy. Better yet, with both. So in the midst of preparations for a Washington society wedding, shift briefly to a southeast slum and give a two-page summary of what it's like to be poor. And have the wedding be between one of the depraved and a young, Greek innocent. Her purity of thought (which borders on the feeble-minded) will really point up the futility of it all. And then, glory...
...African interior. In brief and eclectic observations Kroch offers an impressionistic case study of a group which seems to be rapidly moving toward extinction. In "Bahia" Keith Aufhauser's intentions are slightly different from Kroch's. Aufhauser captures the flavor of daily life in a superstitious and unpredictably violent slum outside of Salvador. Both Kroch and Aufhauser have obviously become personally involved in the groups' difficulties, but they have avoided dull sentimentality and laconic pleas for sympathy...