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Word: tenements (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family lives in a tenement that is rarely touched by the sun, but the glow of passion, humor, fear and stirring dreams lights up each character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...like Sawyer, young Duluoz is a fair-weather rebel, and he generally rambles home in time for dinner. The book, some of its pages all but yellowed with nostalgia, is an elegy to the warm, safe smells of a tenement kitchen and the dark mysteries of a city neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grooking in Lowell | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Turf in the Tenement. Perhaps the book's most appealing episode is the horse-racing fantasy-for Jack Duluoz, like any right-thinking Massachusetts twelve-year-old, is a track addict. In the Duluoz tenement, on dark winter mornings, Jack scribbles out racing forms, plays the call to colors on the Victrola, stages elaborate handicap races with marbles ("I owned that great Repulsion, also personally rode the beast, and trained him . . . also ran the Turf, was Commissioner, Track Handicapper, President of the Racing Association, Secretary of the Treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grooking in Lowell | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Raisin belongs to the long and simple annals of the poor. Three generations of the Younger family are packed in a sunless Chicago South Side tenement flat. There is white-haired, wide-girthed Mother Younger (Claudia McNeil), a matriarchal Rock of Gibraltar; her son Walter Lee (Sidney Poitier), 35, who finds his chauffeur's uniform a strait jacket; his younger sister Beneatha (Diana Sands), a race-conscious progressive who wants to be a doctor; Walter's wife Ruth (Ruby Dee), who yearns for a grassy reprieve from the soot-and-asphalt jungle; and the Youngers' small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...member of the Irish Republican Army. At 16, in 1939, he traveled to England with the intention of blowing up the battleship King George V. After less than a week and nothing blown up, British po; lice caught Brendan with the explosive goods on him in a Liverpool slum tenement. At Borstal, one of the "screws" (warders) showed a keen sense of British affection for unsuccessful revolutionaries. Said he to the chubby would-be martyr: "Now, Guy Fawkes, lead on to the dungeons . . . You've got an 'ole suite of rooms to yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old School Noose | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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