Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could be expected, peace, civil rights, and farm subsidies are subversive. Higher wages and the shorter work week are, too. Consumer protection, rent control and reduction of taxes--frequent objectives of the Democratic Party--have also made the blacklist. Better job opportunities and educational facilities for young people, slum clearance, and anti-discriminatory housing provisions are also Communist goals...
...Daughters. The magic of India's Satyajit Ray, who directed the Apu trilogy and Devi, lies in his ability to translate the life around him into such universal terms that Western audiences see his India not as a gold-embroidered slum peopled with mystics and mendicants but as an identifiable place where ordinary humans go about their ordinary lives. Two Daughters, a two-part film based on short stories by Rabindranath Tagore, is so filled with the basic stuff of humanity that with minor changes of script it could have been made in rural Louisiana...
...Roxbury, a slum community inhabited by roughly 60,000 Negroes, an intensive publicity campaign is operating to draw people to the demonstration. A sound truck is patrolling the area, leaflets are being distributed, spot radio announcements are being made hourly over the radio by local church officials, and ministers have agreed to announce the mass gathering in their morning services...
Elaine de Kooning paints only people who interest her-cops, collectors, critics, or a bunch of teen-aged slum kids she calls the Burghers of Amsterdam Avenue. Viewers who do not know her subjects personally may get an uneasy feeling that the work is sometimes slapdash, sometimes arbitrary. The judgment would be wrong, for the portraits are virtually instant summaries-the unconscious summing up that one friend makes of another when the two unexpectedly meet...
Supposedly, the more than 750 volunteers were received with open arms by the inmates, patients, and slum dwellers who received all this sweetness and light. Fortunately for PBH, most students now realize that its Salvation Army all-smiles-and-little efficacy days are over, and that the work of PBH is selected as much for the stimulation it will offer the volunteers as for the practical good it might...