Word: tenements
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...house on the pretext that she cannot care for him. Like King Lear, the elderly patriarch is forced to seek the generosity of his progeny. Luckily for him, his youngest daughter, a kind soul named Roxana, welcomes her parent, despite the fact that she dwells in a tiny tenement in Pleasant Villa with her husband and two sons...
...grew up in Lowell's principal suburb, Chelmsford, mowing the local church lawn in summer for extra money, going on Catholic Youth Organization ski trips with Father Coughlin in winter. I knew of famous St. Patrick's, which rises like a beacon in the city's poorest section, a tenement-filled neighborhood called the Acre. On the cold but sunny Thursday when I visited Father Spagnolia, the front doors of St. Patrick's were decorated with multicolored and multilingual posters: INNOCENT UNTIL PROVED GUILTY UNLESS ORDAINED IN BOSTON and CHUNG CON LUON O BEN CHA (Vietnamese for WE SUPPORT...
...escape its associations with English history, English manners, Shakespeare, Dickens, the Bible. Narayan cleansed his English, so to speak, of all these associations, cleansed it of everything but irony, and applied it to his own little India. His people can eat off leaves on a floor in a slum tenement, hang their upper-cloths on a coat stand, do all that in correct English, and there is no strangeness, no false comedy, no distance...
...fine house, solid as might be expected, far better than the cramped tenement on the Lower East Side where I later chose to live. But there wasn't a single tree for blocks around. In fact, when we moved in there wasn't even any grass. I remember my father out in front, in the dirt patch meant to be a yard, unloading sod and pressing it down with a huge steel sod-roller. To me it was like living in a desert. Walking home from school, sitting on a curb playing marbles, riding my bike - there was never...
...scorned; Sim Rosedale (La Paglia), another of Lily's suitors, earns scowls because he was crude enough to earn his money instead of inheriting it. But Lily has no wealth to cushion her fall. Her old, sure sashay down garden paths is now a scurry along tenement streets; she is afraid of being seen by those who once were pleased to say they knew...