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What follows are views of life among such ethnic fringe groups as Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews, a band of Rumanian gypsies at Coney Island, a voodoo cult in Harlem, Japanese Buddhists on Riverside Drive, New Year revelers in Chinatown. Paradoxically, while poking through the city's sociological byways, Gaisseau misses the singular flavor of New York almost entirely. Like many other well-meaning tourists, he makes a superficial tour of the melting pot but overlooks the fire that keeps it going-the fast, fierce, savvy modernity of a great metropolis...
Sometimes irresponsibility has marked his Senate campaign too. In a race overburdened by appeals to ethnic groups, Keating has urged Isreal's admission to NATO, insinuated that Kennedy has Nazi sympathies, and accused Kennedy of deliberately impuning Italian character by his handling of the Valachi testimony...
However, with the influx of immigrants in the 19th century, the territorial nature of the parish began breaking down, and was replaced by an ethnic orientation, as may still be found in predominantly Irish-Catholic and Italian-Catholic churches...
...This ethnic homogenity stayed off for a while the collapse of the parish as a meaningful unit...
Today, as the Church in the city faces a disintegration of the ethnic based churches, it must turn to new groups of city-dwellers, often Negro, who, Handlin says, are often "historically, economically, and socially remote from the Church." "It is the kind of relationship which the Church establishes with these new people that will determine the Church's role in the rest of this century," he said...