Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Augusto Francale, an amiable, middle-aged bachelor practicing law in Monte Calvario-a slum known in Naples as "the natural breeding place of evil"-recently organized a league to write a divorce law for the new Republic. Similar attempts made earlier in the century had come to naught in a 97% Catholic country.* Last week Signor Francale's ideas were under attack in sermons, editorials, posters and street demonstrations. The Christian Family Defense Front sponsored such slogans as: "Beware of saboteurs of the home and family-down with divorce!" which appeared on Italian walls. The church, however...
...book describes Mrs. Webb's numerous investigations and reports, on trade unions, education, slum conditions and the inadequacies of the Poor Laws; we also got a picture of her continuous battle with the radical Socialists, first in the form of anarchistic trade union leaders near the turn of the century, later with the guild socialism of G. D. H. Cole, and after the war with supporters of the Russian revolution...
...local coal merchant who still drives his cart through town) by 14,198 votes, a 26% loss for Labor since last year's national election. Labor also won only limited victories in the whitecollar, middle-class suburb of Bexley (loss since 1945: 84%) and in blitz-shattered, slum-infested North Battersea (loss...
Passenger facilities at airports are usually inadequate or worse. Chicago's is "a slum. Chewing gum, orange peel, papers and cigar butts strew the floor around the stacks of baggage. ... To rest the thousands there are exactly 28 broken-down leather seats. One must line up even for the rest rooms...
Modern schooling makes him shudder. Curricula, for one thing, are much too cluttered. Argues Sir Richard: "Education prospers by exclusion. Overcrowding in education, as in housing, turns the school into an intellectual slum." He would have young students concentrate on two or three subjects as mental disciplines, and leave most history and literature for adults. The boy of 14 (school-leaving age of 80% of Britons) lacks the "experience of life" he needs to get the most out of these studies...