Word: tenements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find public housing so closely duplicating the squalor it was designed to supplant." A heavy portion of the 300,000 Puerto Ricans and many of the 300,000 Negroes who have arrived in the city in the past seven years have settled in such projects and in older tenement slums...
Faith & Doubt. Everywhere the new President was beset by signs of liberty sliding out of control. The endless sweep of the frontier had recently been shut off; the trend was on to the tenement. Capital, levering itself out of the chaos of cutthroat competition, was forming monoliths of monopoly. Labor was adolescent, agitated, angry. Government at best was minimal and at worst could be bought. The radical vote was rising. Said Theodore Roosevelt: "There had been in our country a riot of individualistic materialism . . ." But the darker portent, as the new President saw it. was that the nation was lurching...
...year-old boy nabbed while trying to hide a hunting knife under a jukebox; three boys arrested for stealing a car; two boys accused of killing a man of 21; two other 16-year-olds charged with trying to rape a 12-year-old girl in a tenement hallway while her little brother, 7, looked helplessly...
...unsuccessful but "interesting." It introduces to Broadway a playwright who is almost struttingly grim, carrying larger-sized luggage than he can fill; but who seems altogether resolved to go his own way, even if he lose his way in the process. Laid in a turn-of-the-century Manhattan tenement, The Rope Dancers is a stubbornly harsh story of a lacerated family. Hard-working Margaret Hyland is a rigid, arrogant, unappeasably bitter woman with a lazy, feckless would-be writer of a husband (Art Carney) and an eleven-year-old daughter born with six fingers on one hand. Beyond having...
Duels at Dawn. In Author Dinesen's stories-recalling E.T.A. Hoffmann and the famed Tales of Hoffmann - Judas Iscariot can be met jingling his silver in a igth century Neapolitan tenement; drunken officers duel at dawn and an artist dies nobly before a firing squad; a king and a poet argue the night through while a bored prostitute awaits their attention. The intricate plots are played out against lovingly evoked backgrounds -fur-blanketed sleds race over the midnight snow of Copenhagen; the golden sun of Italy flashes from white villa to blue...