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Slack admits the program is a little cold-blooded and calculating. But its primary goal is to reduce crime, and if that aim is achieved, society and the community have gained. "We're not 'do-gooders' concerned only with 'helping youth,' and we're not a social service organization," Slack has pointed out. "We want to reduce the amount of crime committed by adolescents." Thus the program is not primarily interested in causing delinquents to conform with American middle-class ideals and may even employ methods which the middle-class would not approve. "If the kids hang...
According to Goodman, society refuses to take seriously, and to recognize that he has real in a real world. This chap and others like are a "youth problem," says Goodman, and emphasis is on their "background conditions," which one can manipulate. Thus, "the aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to reestablish "belonging...
...then in the puzzle of finding an aim in life (a kid can't hang around the gang forever), the young man places all his hopes in having a normal healthy marriage and raising non-neurotic children. Thus, "togetherness" becomes a partial substitute for meaningful work. But of course, the responsibilities of a family only entrap a man more securely in the system...
...cool" --Goodman finds a paucity of vocabulary and syntax expressive of the Best withdrawal from standard civilization and its learning. "In a Best group it is bad form to assert or deny a preposition as trus or false, probable or improbable, or to want to explore its meaning. The aim of conversation is for each one to be able, by speech, to know that he is existing and belonging...
This fall marked the fulfillment of the English Department's aim of giving tutorial to all interested students, whether in Honors or non-Honors. Thus approximately two-thirds of the Department's tutorial staff are involved in non-Honors work, and the average work-load is at its highest level since World War II. More-over, if the current program meets with favor, the Department will ask to have more men put into tutorial next year...