Word: slum
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...program besides Judd were Paul Goodman, a Columbia professor who called for a general decentralization of society, and panel discussions of slum life and "the creative role of the artist in society...
Term of Trial. Sir Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret, cast as the Mr. and Mrs. Chips of a milltown slum, memorialize an appalling marriage with charm and admirable finesse...
Most of Accion's volunteers are working in barrios, or slum areas of Venezuela. Patterson said Peace Corps workers in Venezuela have only tried to draw barrio inhabitants out of the slums to community centers. Our people live in the barrios, and are able to learn what the real problems are and gain the population's confidence...
...Typical projects Corps volunteers might undertake, such as working in slum areas, mental hospitals, Indian reservations, and on various educational projects...
Rather than turn the party over to the rash and mercurial Bevan after Labor's defeat in the 1951 election, Attlee held on to the leadership and watched the developing struggle between ex-Coal Miner Nye and the middleclass, intellectual Gaitskell, who had never lived in a slum or walked in a picket line. With all the passion and eloquence of his proletarian youth, Bevan raged that Gaitskell was a "desiccated calculating machine." No phrasemaker, Gaitskell did not engage Nye in verbal combat, instead coolly and shrewdly lined up the trade union rank and file behind him. When Attlee...