Treatment of Intraventricular Cryptococcal Granuloma: Correction

Polacheck, Itzhack; Sacks, Todd

doi:10.3171/jns.1988.68.5.0831a

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“…Yet these people eat food sold on the street under the filthiest conditions. 42 Lest we assume this story represented not her own views but a performance of middle-class values to please the teacher, we can point to parallel examples elsewhere in Polacheck's memoir, such as anecdotes in which she forcefully praised Addams for promoting safer food practices-including disposal of waste. Recalled the immigrant author later: "Where there were alleys in back of the houses, these alleys were filled with large wooden boxes where garbage and horse manure were dumped.…”

Section: Safe Food As Shared Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

Gathering around Hull-House Dining Tables

Robbins¹,

Tippen²

2018

American Studies

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Hilda Satt Polacheck, who had immigrated to America in 1893, could hardly wait to return to her former Halsted Street neighborhood to attend the fortieth-anniversary festivities for Hull-House in 1929. What drew Polacheck and so many others back to the settlement, even if, as in her case, they no longer lived in Chicago? Certainly, the personal magnet was Jane Addams. As Polacheck reported in her memoir, I Came a Stranger, Jane Addams moved among the great and the humble just as any mother would when her far-flung children returned to the old home for a reunion. She knew everybody's name. She asked after children of the former children who had come to Hull-House years ago as bewildered, uprooted little immigrants. . . . I felt that all the people who had come to that reunion were her family. 1 For Polacheck, writing about this occasion years later, the anniversary dinner presented the central image affirming this feeling of domestic community: "I will never forget how [Addams] seated me at her table in the dining room. I know that many celebrities sat around that table that night, but I only remember Jane Addams at the head of the table, carving a roast, as if she were serving a family." 2 Polacheck's recollections were unabashedly romanticized, but this

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Section: Safe Food As Shared Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%