Word: af
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus the working-class or lower-middle-class American hangs in anxious suspension above poverty and well below af fluence. Meantime, his wage gains are being eroded by in flation, rising taxes and the lure of easy credit for new cars and other luxuries. "This man feels himself more alone than any other member of society," says Saul Alinsky, a life long organizer of working-class movements. "He is almost out of his mind with frustration - call it hate. He sees his Government, with programs for blacks and for the indigent and programs for everyone except him, and he figures...
...rate faster than it is produced. The rich man has no more of it than the pauper-and no less. Previous economic theory, says Linder, fails to take into sufficient account that leisure time must be consumed, either by doing something or doing nothing. For a society both af fluent and leisured, and anxious to put every moment to good use, there are simply too many things to do. Overwhelmed by a burgeoning store of goods and services designed for pleasure, the would-be consumer, trying to do everything at once, succumbs to a malady that Linder calls "pleasure blindness...
...respects, the U.S. is now by far the freest country in the Western world. Moreover, it happened in a few short years. Until 1933, James Joyce's Ulysses was not purchasable in the U.S.; today, the corner drugstore sells Fanny Hill along with Fannie Farmer. In 1959, the Ballets Af-ricains were not allowed to perform in Manhattan until the female dancers donned bras. When they returned in 1968, no one even raised the issue...
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN is the best-known practitioner in the U.S. of that new specialty called ur-banology. As the recently appointed head of Richard Nixon's projected Cabinet-level Council on Urban Af fairs, he will have a hand in reshaping the nation's existing antipoverty programs. Judging from a book to be published by Macmillan in February, it will not be a gentle hand. In a searing indictment of Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, Moynihan contends that the much ballyhooed effort was oversold, underplanned and seriously "flawed" in execution. Writes Moynihan in the opening...
...apartheid repression, South Africa remains two crucial steps short of being a full-fledged police state. It still has an independent judiciary and a free, if often intimidated press. Now, in what promises to be one of South Af rica's hardest-fought court cases in years, the limits of press freedom are being tested. The occasion is the trial of the editor in chief of Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail, Laurence Gandar, who was arraigned last week for, as he put it, "fulfilling the recognized duty of a newspaper." As Gandar saw that duty, it included publishing...