Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satisfy the enthusiastic followers of Pike, and sufficiently orthodox on theological matters to soothe those moderates and conservatives who think Pike close to heresy. Pike and Myers have been friends since their teaching days together at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary 20 years ago. Myers' work in slum and Negro areas of Jersey City, New York and Chicago has won him the reputation of being more at home in the asphalt jungle than the pulpit. He and his wife Katie Lea had no children, but they adopted a Negro boy (now grown up and in the Peace Corps...
Even one commuter college, San Francisco State, hopes to develop cohesiveness by clustering students. It will take 60 freshmen this fall, put them together in basic classes-and also send them out on such social-service projects as remedial teaching of slum kids. Associate Dean Joseph Axelrod predicts that students in the group "will begin to care about each other...
...happen, but in this picture they don't happen in a believable way. There is too much hoke in the violence, too much duh-duh in the dialogue. And the hog stompers, when not actually stomping somebody, are played for cheap laughs as a fright-wigged cast of slum-dumb characters. In real life, man, they are something else...
...when a dozen youth leaders petitioned him to let them take over an entire province and demonstrate what they could offer in leadership. Ky would not go that far, but to their surprise handed them complete administrative control of Saigon's District 8-a squalid, 3-sq.-mi. slum packed with 30,000 war refugees...
...Slum Child. But the author of Anna of the Five Towns, The Old Wives' Tale, the Clayhanger trilogy and Ricey-man Steps was also a superb storyteller and a literary innovator, a Dickens shorn of romanticism. By imposing on the sentimental Edwardian fabric the realistic techniques he had absorbed from such French masters as Goncourt, Flaubert, Maupassant and Turgenev (whom he insisted on calling French because it was in that language that he read him), Bennett became the first popular novelist of his time to tell of the actual lives of recognizable people in words that ordinary readers could...