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Some black teachers have also been harassed by those white students who seem determined not to adjust to the new situation. Parents in Mississippi's Washington County have sent their children into class with portable tape recorders to gather evidence against black teachers they consider incompetent. White students in Greer, a suburb of Greenville, S.C., openly mimic the accent of a black English teacher...
...family, Millett says, is patriarchy's chief institution and cell for sexist brainwashing. It not only "encourages its own members to adjust and conform, but acts as a unit [in the] patriarchal state which rules its citizens through its family heads." Male power is enforced by the man's position as head of the household: other members of the family must rely upon his economic and social status. Within the family, gender roles are ideologically reinforced. Girls, for instance, are taught to cook and sew passively, in imitation of their mothers; boys are encouraged to be aggressive in imitation...
...Robinsons were shocked to find a bag of marijuana in Sue's room. In Seattle, parents have turned kids in for that. Instead, says Robinson, "we began to adjust, to really listen for the first time." They interviewed Sue's friends, discussed Viet Nam, gradually accepted ideas that had formerly incensed Robinson, "a child of the Depression" and a veteran of World War II. In fact, he says, "I have
...required by working people to perform the creative, skilled work associated with our most advanced technologies (presently tied up in military, aerospace and related junk production). In other words, there is a need to "control" wages so as to have them correspond to our productive potential -that is, to adjust living levels so as to prepare not only presently employed but future productive generations to operate the already predictable technologies of tomorrow. After that, one would estimate the quantity and quality of the productive apparatus necessary to meet that "bill of consumption" or "controlled wages" plan. Then we can look...
...employment in the industry will drop to 1,177,000. Many of the toolmakers, designers and other workers have been out of jobs for months. Employers in other fields are often afraid that aerospace workers, who are conditioned to working under cost-plus contracts with guaranteed profits, could not adjust to tightly budgeted production schedules. Other employers believe that aerospace veterans are interested only in temporary jobs, waiting to jump back to the plane-and-space plants at the first opportunity...