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KATHLEEN WILSON The Bronx...
Karsten Prager of TIME'S New York bureau lived until recently in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, a part of the city that is much like a suburb. In East Orange, he found a suburb that is much like a city...
...leading member of this crew is Israel Horovitz, who wrote The Indian Wants The Bronx, and now Line. Other playwrights with a similar tenor of mind are John Guare (CopOut, The House of Blue Leaves), Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Happy Birthday, Wanda June), and Jules Feiffer (Little Murders, The White House Murder Case). In a sense, they are all cartoonists (as Feiffer actually is), commenting on life, but never really bringing life to birth on the stage. They all write rather like Madison Avenue dropouts, reaching for the zingy zany line that will somehow sell their intrinsically pessimistic little packages. They...
...process, he became one of the first American examples of the artist as celebrity, wielding what Harold Rosenberg felicitously called "the shady lyricism of the Sunday supplement." He was blessed (and afterward dogged) by the circumstance of being everyone's idea of the hipster from the Bronx-a mean blade, good with a saxophone or a motorcycle, the flamboyant, randy and infinitely dexterous picaro of Tenth Street. But by the end of the '60s, his virtues had to an extent rebounded on his reputation. His astounding skill as a traditional, realistic draftsman looked vaguely suspect to some critics...
...vastly different approach, the Office of Economic Opportunity has funded training for family health workers, who need only the equivalent of a fifth-grade education. Many are recruited from welfare rolls. At Watts Health Center in Los Angeles and at The Bronx's Montefiore Hospital, for instance, the workers learn to incorporate some of the functions of the public health nurse, the lawyer, social worker, physician and health educator. They make house calls and are trained to help people negotiate with welfare and other agencies to get the help they need...