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...week, and those too proud to beg got nothing. When Hoover said that nobody had starved, FORTUNE magazine used his statement as the title of a bitter dissent: 95 people suffering starvation were admitted to New York City hospitals during 1931, and 20 of them died; 27% of the schoolchildren in Pennsylvania in 1932 were suffering from malnutrition. Roosevelt's first bill for federal relief passed Congress in May ("God save the people of the United States," protested Republican Senator C.L. Beedy of Maine), but the $500 million appropriation had to be disbursed through the states. By nightfall...
...Problems beg solutions. No sense wasting time. Under this new plan, the states would be able to reduce benefits for the poor within a few short years [by 1987]. Besides, though, only a dozen or so states currently have the bureaucratic know-how necessary to handle large, basic-income programs, the grass roots would never fall prey to the temptations of corruption. And those who dwell amid the debris and detritus of our modern cities will gladly shoulder the extra tax burden without fleeing for the suburbs...
...mulling over the retreat of "personal humanity" before "the worldwide process of consolidation." The woman was an eminent psychiatrist and former Minister of Health whose humanism was incompatible with the Communist regime. Corde's wife Minna is an astrophysicist who defected to the U.S. and must now beg a vindictive bureaucracy for permission to see her failing mother...
...edited by Steven Heller. Although a few illustrations are pure character assassination, most are lampoons of contemporary trends. Gahan Wilson's Senators complain about environmentalists through gas masks; Ronald Searle's bird finds the sky too crowded and decides to walk; Bill Lee's pilgrims beg heaven for a sign and are rewarded with one: WELCOME TO THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE...
Ostensibly an aberration, particularly to American eyes, Pixote--"peewee" in Portugese--is a common figure in modern Latin American cities. The homeless children have little choice but to beg and steal. Neither their families, nor society as a whole is willing to care for them. Abandoned to the streets, Pixote is pressed into service by adult thieves because under Brazilian law he's too young to be indicted. Instead, he is repeatedly sent to a boys reformatory, where he learns of violent rape, murder and spiritual corruption. Inside, Pixote is victim; upon his release he turns predator. But his character...