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...Forty percent is fantasy." Fantasy prevailed last Saturday night; little frustration showed. "We come from Jamaica with the message of peace and love," Jimmy Cliff announced during the concert, but such messages sound simple when separated from their roots. Reggae is street music from the West Kingston slum, Trenchtown, and springs from the mass of poor, disenfranchised black Jamaicans. On the one hand reggae is a transcendent music. On the other it is an extremely bitter and very political expression of social injustice. This transcendent quality comes in songs like Who Feels It, Knows It, from Jimmy Cliff's latest...
...Indians with whom he lived regarded him as an unattractive curiosity. At the end of the final volume, as the two nations go through the hasty and humiliating process of separation, the man who might have represented the best of their coming together is submerged in a Ranpur slum...
...form and order of their buildings, but "as soon as the stranger arrives at the unknown city and his eye penetrates the pine cone of pagodas and garrets and haymows ... he immediately distinguishes which are the princes' palaces, the high priests' temples, the tavern, the prison, the slum...
...about eighteen when my great uncle Jake took the dinner hours to describe how he and a new partner had bought a street of slum houses in downtown New York He. Jake, during a lunch break in the signing of the partnership, removed all the toilet seats from the buildings and sold them for fifty dollars. But, asked my mother's cousin, what will the poor people who live there do without toilet seats? "Let us," said Jake, "approach your question in a practical manner. I ask you to accompany me now to the bathroom, where I will explode...
Unexpected Help. Believed to be ultraleftist members of the Palestinian guerrilla movement, the kidnapers threatened that Morgan would be murdered unless the U.S. provided sizable food, clothing and construction aid for al Maslakh (Arabic for Slaughterhouse), a slum section of Beirut that was seriously damaged during the recent factional fighting. At week's end a private Lebanese committee began distributing free food in the slum. Two hours before a deadline expired, Morgan was released unharmed...