Word: slums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shabby slum sidewalk...
...hatred of Hitler that first impelled Alinsky to try his hand at organization. In the so-called Back of the Yards section of Chicago in the late '30s, fascism was making many converts among the jobless, bitterly frustrated slumdwellers. "This was not the slum across the tracks," recalls Alinsky. "This was the slum across the tracks from across the tracks." By organizing a series of sitdowns and boycotts, he forced the neighborhood meat packers and slumlords to meet the demands of the community for a better life. Alien ideologies lost their force, and Back of the Yards became...
...immigrants in the New World) so is the film's style. It has slick effective dialogue, clever camerawork, and all the authentic detail which $8,000,000 can buy. Also effective are the contrasts brought out in the cross-cutting between the pub and the church, and between the slum mines and the sunny green fields. But the effective in American film making is not without its drawbacks and so recalls the words of Lawrence Durrell's Pursewarden: "The effective in art is what rapes the emotion of your audience without nourishing its values." The trouble with most American "realism...
Although Peterson agreed to the charge that the board exams are culturally biased, he said, "there's also a cultural bias in education because you're learning how to think, not how to survive in boot camp or in a slum," Physical survival is very important, he added, "but very different from what you have to learn to survive at Harvard...
...Smith's reforming impulse was rooted in a compassion he learned from the near-slum environment in which he grew up. He was born to slightly better than average circumstances on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1873. After quitting school at the eighth grade, he worked at a variety of jobs-including hawking the day's catch...