Word: ghettos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Remembering the 30 years of battle and good-sized fortune that my mother and dad put in trying to demolish the ghetto, I experience a deep personal pain. It is true that that fight won our people some new and decent housing in Chicago, but I cannot forget that it also won my father's death and my mother's current punishment by people who apparently want the property and not repairs...
...gooders from foreign lands seemed willing to help only the young and able-"a miner or a ditchdigger. We have a widow with nine children. No one ever came for her." Pire's idea was to build special "European villages" for the D.P.s-not a separate community, a potential ghetto, but "a neighborhood glued onto a city." Often he ran into ugly resistance: one Swiss village refused to allow him to start a home for aged refugees because it did not want to enlarge its cemetery; a German burgomaster got a letter threatening dire consequences should...
...Golden Ghetto. Opposed to the no-goodniks are the do-gooders, who, according to the Lederer-Burdick ideal, live at the native level, stay outside the Americans' "ingrown social life," also known as S.I.G.G. (Social Incest in the Golden Ghetto), never shop at the PX, work with their hands, and do winsome things like playing the harmonica. Among the best of these is "the ugly American" of the title, a big, homely engineering genius full of bright, simple, technical ideas that the overambitious Asians want no part of. Like most of the "good" Americans in the book...
...Great Dictator, which is currently being re-released to convulsed audiences in Europe. Interspersed scenes such as Hitler doing a balloon dance with a globe are obvious ridicule, with very doubtful historic basis. But the story focuses on a sort of polar struggle between the gestapo and "the ghetto," which seems incredibly funny even to Europeans...
...These notes have all the casual aspect of horror encountered in nightmares. One account records, in the midst of gossip about prices, the story of a baby thrown from a refugee train. Another tells of "benzine poured over a young Jew" and fired. So common was death in the ghetto courtyards that the dead lay unburied, and children were seen at a game of "tickling the corpse...