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...CANNOT BE easy to conjure up the image of a Trinidad slum within Harvard's walls. It is much easier, in this frame of reference, to dwell on the rhythm of Carribean music or the island's luxurious beaches than to consider the realities of a life without money or opportunity, a life in which dreams are consistently stifled by a miserable reality. Yet it is precisely because it does not take this easy way out that the Leverett Arts Society's production of Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl is so impressive. Without falling into bathos...
...virtually a mass castration crusade. The government not only used a wide variety of economic incentives and disincentives to encourage sterilization, but also crude, strongarm tactics. These tactics alienated the teeming peasantry and urban poor who once supported Gandhi. The Youth Congress carried out sterilization and the companion slum clearance program with excessive brutality among the Muslims in Delhi, who saw the drive as an oppressive religious assault by the Hindus. Both the poor farmer and the menial city laborer viewed the aggressiveness of these programs as an attempt to destroy the large family, which they consider the best insurance...
...problem of people living in slum housing is gradually being eliminated," Frieden said. "What you have now is people living in better housing but paying...
Unamusing Neurotics. The marital combatants are Mario Thomas and Charles Grodin, and the casus belli is their upward social mobility. He has become the headmaster of a fashionable Manhattan private school; she is still teaching in a public school in a slum. He is very pleased with their new high-rise apartment; she is so displeased that she has sent their antique furniture to their first apartment on the Lower East Side, in the neighborhood where they grew up. He is glumly preoccupied with getting and spending, she with gaminish stratagems designed to break through his fagade of indifference. None...
...museum and a center for creation, where the plastic arts would exist alongside music, cinema, books, audio-visual research. Its creativity would obviously be modern and continually changing." The location: Beaubourg, once a bourgeois neighborhood between the Bastille and Les Halles, but for the past century a decaying slum. Specifically, planners chose a five-acre patch of razed ground that was being used as a parking lot, then called for an international architectural competition...