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...believes there can never be any cure, because what the mentally ill need is "a swifter warmth than most people, even lovers, are prepared to give." The medical staff decides that Istina should have a frontal lobotomy. With the feeling that her personality has been condemned like a slum dwelling, she fearfully awaits the surgeon's scalpel and the terrible peace of mindlessness. But one doctor says no. "I don't want you changed," he tells Istina. "I want you to stay...
...Children of Sanchez, by Oscar Lewis. A tape-recorded documentary in which each of five members of a slum-dwelling Mexico City family tells of his own struggle for respect, love and individuality. Far from the dusty aridities of social science, the book offers a powerful, touching and intimate view of the long, and far from simple, annals of the poor...
...saved from being only one more cast-of-dozens slum epic by the author's deep love for all his characters, good and less good, and by the intensity of his inquiry. Some writers reveal things about their characters; Fuchs asks. It is his curiosity that takes the reader, not his revelations. One shares Philip's question about the butcher upstairs who makes a gas mask out of a basketball bladder and asphyxiates himself: "O Meyer Sussman! As a favor to a young writer, will you ask God for me what made you squeeze the basketball bladder over...
...Children of Sánchez is the story of a family of live slum dwellers in modern Mexico City. Oscar Lewis, a University of Illinois anthropologist who has devoted most of his career to Latin America, met the Sanchez family in 1956 during a study of Mexico City's Casa Grande vecindad (tenement). He took a preliminary look at them in a 1959 book describing a day in the lives of Five Families, concluded that the Sánchez clan was typical of much in Mexican life and decided to study them in depth. The book is told...
...slum girl, Consuelo got a good education: grammar school and trade school, where she learned to type. She went to work for a businessman, lost her job when she refused to let him make love to her. Despite her revulsion of sex, Consuelo finally let herself be seduced. "Caray," she says. "So many things have happened to me since then. What can I do to stop punishing myself? Was it bad luck or bad faith that was my undoing. Not a day goes by when I do not have some filthy proposition, nor a powerful reason to accept...