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...volunteers have been dismissed for "immaturity and irresponsiblity." Neither Cox nor his field representative, William Hale, would give any further explanation. Neal Birnbaum and Douglass Ruhe, both from Chicago and both 22 years old, believe they were released because of their associations with a Mexican-American activist group called VIDA (Voices in Democratic Action...
...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. A nightmarish picture of poverty among Puerto Ricans in San Juan's La Esmeralda and New York City's Spanish Harlem-painted largely by the subjects themselves with the assistance of Anthropologist Lewis' ubiquitous tape recorder...
...Terror." In 1953, Vida Hope, director of the London musical hit, The Boy Friend-a campy spoof of the 1920s-offered Julie the lead in the Broadway company. "My first thought," she remembers, "was 'Oh, good Christ, the idea of leaving my home and family'-I couldn't do it." But she tried the idea on "my Dad-my real Dad-the wisest and dearest man I knew." Said Dad: Take it. On the night of the New York opening, Julie turned 19-and the critics turned out the superlatives. She was a star...
...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. A pitiless exposure of poverty among Puerto Rican Americans, whose life stories are told largely by the subjects themselves into Anthropologist Lewis' tape recorder...
...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. Anthropologist Lewis' tape-recorded view of Mexican poverty, gathered at its roots in The Children of Sanchez, cut considerably more deeply than most sociology goes. This time the compelling scene is poverty among the Puerto Ricans, and it is unrelievedly ugly...