Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little avail. Bajour wants to be offbeat and manages only to be off key. When a group of vagrants camp fifty to the square foot in a deplastered slum store and trumpet that they intend to steal New York blind, the $9.60 ticket buyer is bound to speculate wryly that he may be the next victim. And even if he is filled with escapist envy for the gypsy's irresponsible lot, his conscience, drummed by a thousand pleas, dampens his delight. In the climate of today's opinion, play-gypsies-play translates into the specter of migrant urban...
...statistics and the gross generalizations which follow, for he never shows whether private enterprise could succeed where public enterprise has failed--in providing decent homes for all. In what kinds of housing have these impressive improvements in quality been achieved? Has unaided private enterprise been eager to build in slum neighborhoods? And if not, is there any evidence that private builders left to themselves would ever attack these hard-core housing problems...
...twelve-week training course. They are now training workers at an auto plant in Libya, teaching at trade schools in Afghanistan and working with farmers in India. Last week 23 German volunteers flew into Dar es Salaam, capital of Tanzania, to begin building 5,000 new apartments in a slum-clearance project...
...contemporary epistle"; last Sunday it was a passage from John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Actors are not the only ones who find a sense of community at St. Clement's; the congregation of 125 also has doctors, lawyers, writers, and a sprinkling of neighborhood slum dwellers...
They do not know what a mirror is, or what an orange is. They do not know their own names. In slum schools across the U.S., normally intelligent children come to kindergarten and first grades innocent of the elementary knowledge and aspirations of their middle-class contemporaries. This mental poverty, caused by their parents' often shocking ignorance and inarticulation, starts the kids off in school so ill-equipped that they slip helplessly backward as they go on (central Harlem eighth-graders, for example, test almost three years behind other New York City students). Thus begins the vicious circle...