Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before long, young Modeste was buzzing noisily in another circle: the fiercely nationalistic circle of the Russian Five. In their letters, they viciously attacked the prevailing Germanism of the Imperial Russian Music Society, which Musorgsky called "the musical slum." Wrote Musorgsky: "Force a Russian peasant to love any of the Volkslieder of the rotten Germans -he will not love them!" Almost as fast as he poured in vodka, he poured out characteristically Russian songs which caught the inflections and rhythms of Russian speech...
...February morning in 1896, readers of the New York Sunday World found something new in the feature section. It was a three-quarter-page colored panel titled The Great Dog Show in M'Googan's Avenue, and peopled with alley cats, stray hounds and slum bums in high-society clothes. Strutting in its center was a child in a bright yellow nightgown, whose slightly oriental face was sharp with precocious malice. The nasty creature was named The Yellow Kid, and his guttersnipe antics were soon on every New Yorker's tongue. It was the first successful comic...
...more than doubled the number of playgrounds and swimming pools. Among the items on his agenda: a huge boys' club for the city's worst slum, the "Irish Channel"; the rebuilding of old Shakespeare Park in the heart of the Negro district...
Only three newcomers to the notorious politics of Cambridge's Poon Ring survived elections yesterday, as cigarsmoking, derby-hatted Clemens B. Woop VI tightened his grasp over the lives of the Bow Street slum sections. In the traditional first-thirteenth in November recount, Woop carried all two electoral districts, dropping only 23 to his pawky opponent...
...awkward, muscle-bound but often effective pictures were honored last week with a retrospective show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The 55 temperas and gouaches on exhibition were sharply drawn, flatly painted reminders of the Sacco-Vanzetti and Tom Mooney cases, the slum children who scrabble for happiness in high-walled playgrounds, the gnarled and stunted poor, the dead on the Pacific beaches, the ruins of Europe, the faces of the starved...