Word: stepney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local problems than does EVO, started a commendable series of sociological studies of Watts almost immediately after the riots last summer. The Free Press fills its classified column with ads that are often explicit and occasionally written in an unfathomably cryptic private language. Read one such recent notice: "Stepney-San Francisco awaits your September; I bid August-Josie...
Shelagh Delaney, 24, and Bernard Kops, 37, are none of these things. They graduated into the welfare state from two of the most ferocious slums in Brit ain: she from one of the uglier neighborhoods around Manchester, and he from the ghetto of London's Stepney and Bethnal Green. In the nature of things, the stories of their own brief lives are more manifesto than reminiscence. Delaney pokes out her pert proletarian tongue at the Establishment; Kops throws a whole coster's barrowful of dead haddock. Both have produced fascinating documents and useful items for those who like...
Sparrows deals with the inhabitants of the colorful Stepney area of London's East End, where the whole picture was filmed. It tells the tale of a rough but appealing seaman who returns from two years of duty to learn that his doll of a wife has set up housekeeping with an unhappily married bus-driver; and it builds to a riotous climax in the Red Lion...