Word: urban
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Wilson's fourth opus, The Piano Lesson, has already been produced at Yale. Like Joe Turner, it marries a naturalistic slice of life with mystic imagery. Set in 1936, it portrays a clan divided between struggling toward independence in the rural South and seeking a new life in the urban North, and it ends with a ritual exorcism. In a sense, all Wilson's plays are exorcisms, doomed but determined attempts to drive out the demons of memory. Says he: "The stigma of slavery is powerful. A few years ago, I went to a Passover service, and the first words...
...finance a new Housing Opportunity Program to build or rehabilitate low-cost housing; states would be required to match half that outlay, for a total of $4.5 billion. An additional $380 million would go to double the number of housing units for which the Department of Housing and Urban Development pays part of the rent for needy tenants...
...that stern policy did not prevent the ruling National Party from suffering a parliamentary by-election defeat at the hands of the far-right Conservative Party, its third such loss in the past month. Last week's voting took place in the urban mining constituency of Randfontein, in the Transvaal, a sign that the fast-rising Conservative Party, long seen as the voice primarily of rural Afrikaners, is broadening its base. It was also a sign that the Conservatives, who hold 22 seats in Parliament, vs. the National Party's 133, could pose a serious threat in next October...
Masters and Johnson simply cannot extrapolate from those who tested positive in their study to the general population. Extremely sexually active people in urban settings form a relatively closed group. We can expect that all the partners of those AIDS carriers in the study are just as sexually active. It's easy math to figure out that the risk of transmission follows a geometrical, and not a linear progression in this subpopulation. The number of people an individual has had sex with "by extension" grows by leaps and bounds if the partners are also at high risk. The second conclusion...
...visit to Mamelodi was organized by Nico Smith, 58, the only resident white minister in an urban black township. In the early 1980s he turned his back on the powerful Dutch Reformed Church and became a minister in the black branch of the church in Mamelodi. In 1986 he moved into the township with his wife Ellen, a child psychiatrist. Says Smith: "The whites of this country have got to see what pain there is under the black skin...