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...bought the place in 1973. She wanted it as a commune for her hippie children and their hangers-on. As the former residents moved out, marijuana began to sprout in the yards and rock music echoed through the forests. Within a few years, Bridgeville had turned into a rural slum in the middle of God's country. Wrecked cars now lie forlornly about. The main water system and septic tanks are broken, as are the toilets in apartments underneath a sagging pink dance hall. "This used to be a great, far-out place, lots of parties and no hassle...
Rosalynn also showed her concern for Jamaica's problems by making an emotional visit to two social service centers in a Kingston slum. Crowds lined the narrow streets as she walked three blocks from one center to the other, and an eleven-year-old girl broke through the guards, hugged her and traipsed along with the President's wife beneath the tropical...
...time for its vivid gaiety: "I thought the '60s were what life was." The decade eventually took on sinister aspects. Mee had his misadventures with alcohol and speed; he ruefully describes his visit to a filthy rural California commune that had even contrived to have its own black slum: "a grotesque parody of the very worst of the world they had wished to escape...
...Shortly after sunset, armed members of the city's 291 kebeles (neighborhood associations) take to nearly deserted streets seeking "class enemies of the broad masses" -meaning opponents of the brutal Marxist regime of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and his military administrative council, known as the Dergue. Scouring slum areas of the capital, kebele patrols kick open doors of mud huts in search of objects that would prove subversive intent. Among them: typewriters and field glasses. Justice is often administered on the spot-with a bullet. Foreign diplomats estimate that perhaps 3,000 people have been murdered since January...
...pace. The plot is not terribly sophisticated or complex. It depends more on empathy with the characters' situation than on theatrical gimmicks--on good acting more than on technical ploys. That empathy is certainly created here. As hard as it may be to evoke the image of a Caribbean slum in the ivy-covered walls of a Harvard House, it can be done. The Leverett Arts Society has managed it, and managed it convincingly...