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...Chicago, the Woodlawn Organization, a belligerent, Alinsky-forged army of Negro slum dwellers, employed rent strikes and picketing to win concessions ranging from tenement repairs to honest scales. In California, 30 Alinsky-founded community projects, mainly for Mexican-Americans, have increased their influence; last week an Alinsky disciple was leading a bitter strike of grape pickers in the San Joaquin Valley for better wages. In Rochester, N.Y., Alinsky's predominantly Negro organization FIGHT (an apt acronym for Freedom, Integration, God, Honor, Today) has severely harassed the already established poverty agency. In Syracuse, N.Y., Alinsky's apprentices trucked mobs...
Unseeing, hopelessly ignorant because she has never been to school, a blind girl gropes through a squalid, nightmare life. Her name is Selina. All day long she sits alone in a city tenement, stringing costume-jewelry beads to earn her keep. Her grandfather (Wallace Ford) is a maudlin old drunk. Her mother (Shelley Winters at her strident best) is a fat, vicious trollop who accidentally caused Selina's blindness years ago, now despises her for deserving pity...
...Tree Tenements. They were elegant and graceful in flight, slow and stupid-seeming on the ground, and fatally gregarious. When they settled in to feed or rest, they would funnel down, out of the sky, filling every branch and foothold, stacking up on one another's backs a dozen deep, splintering weak branches, toppling whole dead trees to the ground. They nested in only slightly less congestion, spreading out over scores of square miles, making every tree a kind of arboreal tenement...
When Stanley turned 13, everybody in his corner of The Bronx heard about it - whether they wanted to or not. Why? His father gave him a saxophone. It was a battered, $35 hock-shop special, and Stanley honked away on it for eight hours a day until the tenement reverberated with angry cries. But whenever somebody shouted, "Shut that kid up!" his mother would shout back from the kitchen, "Play louder, Stanley! Play louder...
...enough sentiment and heartbreak to fill several movies; what it sorely needs is a touch of cynicism and perhaps just a glimmer of recognizable truth. Hero Richard Chamberlain (TV's Dr. Kildare), struggling through law school during the 1920s, elopes with an Irish-American lass (Yvette Mimieux) whose tenement origins and uninhibited candor are purported to be rather embarrassing for him. Actually, Yvette conceals her social liabilities behind a peekaboo brogue and matching hairdo...