Word: urban
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Kaplan, who concentrates in Folk-lore and Mythology, says her father usually enjoys the ensuing conversation about "whatever this person thinks folklore is," ranging from urban legends to Halloween...
Ramesh R. Gajraj '94 taught at Fenway High School, an urban school near Charlestown with a mainly low-income student body. He says his UTEP experience changed his perceptions about American public education. "The conditions of urban schools--30 kids inclasses, teaching 5 classes a day in less thanideal facilities--can lead to frustration anddifficulties for teachers," Gajraj says...
...Tony Award front runner for best revival and best set -- a category rarely won by a straight play -- is the London import An Inspector Calls, a drawing- room melodrama exploded into a streetscape of urban despair. The opening scenes are daringly played inside an enclosed mini-mansion that gradually opens and finally topples, a metaphor for the collapse of capitalism. Brilliant as the effect is, one wonders whether the creators realize what economic system actually did fall apart in recent years...
...objected to Quayle's praise of personal responsibility and the two-parent family at the time. To call President Clinton, as Quayle does, a "convert" to such bromides is preposterous. To be sure, the past couple of years have seen a growing fashion of blaming illegitimacy for everything from urban crime to the North Korean nuclear bomb. But even in ancient 1992 it required no courage to endorse "family values...
With the nation still trying to come to terms with the rise of urban ethnic conflict, institutions such as Harvard must lead in the development of new methods of studying the rapidly changing social fabric. The institution of permanent courses in ethnic studies and the hiring of more minority faculty world fill tow glaring holes in Harvards's academic and educational resources, contributing mightily to a better understanding of a complex American society that increasingly defies traditional analyses...