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...expectations. Higher education once was looked on as a privilege reserved for the brighter sons of the affluent. Now it is coming to be assumed that every boy or girl who can get through high school has a right to four years of college, with public assistance if need be. Last week the Senate passed a bill that would give every college student the right to a grant of $1,400 a year, minus what his family could contribute. Untended illness used to be regarded as the unavoidable fate of the poor and aged. Today it is considered an intolerable...
...proceedings open with a suitably clever premise-grade-A Alec Guinness, actually. Four respectable citizens, pillars of a Fairfield County country club, have lost their upper-tax-bracket jobs during the present little economic adjustment. They make up the champagne casualties - the affluent walking wounded. Sandy Campbell is an ex-vice president of a mutual fund, shot down with the market. Jack Carmody is an ex-ad-agency ace, gone up in smoke with his TV cigarette accounts. Sam Deitsch is a dress manufacturer who laid it on the hemline for the midi. Harry Price is all the has-beens...
Under Sizer's eight-year tenure as dean, the School of Education tripled its budget, constructed two new buildings, and attracted renowned scholars to the faculty, despite recent drastic cuts in federal funding and the lack of an affluent alumni body to support the school. Sizer also radically revised the curriculum of the School last year...
Even for the affluent U.S., Papanek lists scores of useful items that designers have never bothered to make. For example, there is still no inexpensive pill bottle that dispenses one pill at a time and is thus safe from children's tampering. There is no practical pocket-size Braille writer, no simple gas and electricity meter, no well-designed first-aid kit, no cheap hearing aid (though transistor radios using the same basic technology cost only $3.98). He himself had to invent a cloth book his infant daughter might enjoy, complete with bright colors and different textures...
Good Manners. Some of the contributions doubtless come from new, affluent friends who have found Oral Roberts University a source of civic pride and a haven of good academic manners (boys in ties, girls in skirts, no smoking anywhere). But most of the support probably still comes from the millions who read the magazines, follow Roberts on radio or television, and send for free gifts. A typical gift last Christmas was a replica of a Judean oil lamp (with a candle in it); this Easter there will be a plate emblazoned with "He is not here. He is risen." Recipients...