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...Tenants of Moonbloom, by Edward Lewis Wallant. A horrifying look behind the doors of New York's wretched slum tenements. The novel's hero is a rent collector who goes bleakly from house to house until he can no longer stand it, and sets out to restore the buildings and his own spirit...
...Tenants of Moonbloom, by Edward Lewis Wallant. A horrifying look behind the doors of New York's wretched slum tenements. The novel's hero is a rent collector who goes bleakly from house to house until he can no longer stand it, and sets out to restore the buildings and his own spirit...
...suburbs; instead, it made the city its new frontier. Aroused by the street-corner murder of a Korean student in 1957, Penn mobilized four other institutions (Drexel Institute of Technology, Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, and Philadelphia College of Osteopathy) in renewing West Philadelphia from a slum to a sprightly University City. By aiding the public schools with advice and scholarships, Penn stemmed a white flight-without driving Negroes away. Some house prices have doubled, and so has the number of faculty men living in the area...
...where John Profumo was four times elected to Parliament before he was cut off in the blossoms of his sin, the air last week was promise-crammed. Campaigning for Profumo's seat were: left-wing Labor Candidate Andrew Faulds, 40, a bearded Shakespearean actor who actually discovered a slum in the Warwickshire countryside; Publisher Derick Mirfin, 33, a bright, toothy Liberal, who declared that "it's time to give the Tories a kick in the pants"; and Tory Angus Maude, 50, an able journalist and former M.P. who rebelled against the government's handling of Suez...
After Cambridge, Ramsey entered Cuddesdon College, a theological seminary near Oxford, and began his rapid and seemingly effortless rise to the top rank of the Established Church. He served for two years as a deacon and priest in a Liverpool slum parish before moving on to more gracious livings in Lincoln, Boston, Durham and Cambridge. His first theological writings-The Gospel and the Catholic Church, The Resurrection of Christ, The Glory of God and the Transfiguration of Christ-earned him applause in churchly reviews and a promotion to Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. Then 45, he already looked...