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...hope that the U.S. will hold a birthday party instead of a wake in the '70s, the Kerner commission offers some cogent proposals. The nation's welfare system must be reformed and upgraded to provide basic sustenance where needed and to discourage the breakup of families. The commission urges creation of 2,000,000 jobs within three years, with remedial training where necessary. That may be an impossible goal, but it would get at the largest single source of criminal raw material-the out-of-school, out-of-work kids. Prekindergarten, primary and secondary education in the slums...
...plight of the writer. At play's end, the band of esthetic fugitives receive word that their boss has committed suicide. Some English reviewers have interpreted the play as a drame a clef-Osborne's public vendetta with Producer-Director Tony Richardson after a recent bitter breakup of their long working relationship. Ordinary audiences, however, can hardly be expected to make sense of arcane theatrical gossip...
Still, for all the talk of "polycentrism" in Communist leadership, Moscow has never really abandoned Nikolai Bukharin's notion that "centripetal tendencies" would one day unite world Communism under the Kremlin banner. Now the Czechoslovaks not only threaten to speed the breakup of Eastern Europe but propose a top-to-bottom spiritual reordering of the Communist way of life as well. Says British Kremlinologist Tibor Szamuely: "Russia is perfectly correct in interpreting the Czechoslovak experiment as something that will lead that country into a non-Communist democracy. The Soviet empire in Eastern Europe is at stake...
Lester is good at it. He scornfully caricatures the breakup of the civil rights movement. Thus S.N.C.C. had been getting heads busted and shot in Mississippi since 1961, he says, but it was not until whites came into the state three years later that there was any press attention. Then the stories, he claims, went something like this: "Blop-blop is a blue-eyed blonde from Diamond Junction-on-the-Hudson, N.Y. She is a 20-year-old junior at Radcliffe majoring in Oriental metaphysics and its relationship to the quantum theory when the sun is in Sagittarius. This summer...
...pressures from within and without must at times seem all but over whelming to mixed couples, and the danger of emotional damage can be considerable. Georgia Herrick, 26, an editorial assistant in Manhattan, blames herself for the breakup of her own six-months'-love affair with a Negro. "In the beginning," she said, "I was trying to prove something to myself, a reaffirmation of the liberal beliefs I had been brought up under." The beliefs didn't carry her far enough. The one time that her black beau took her to a Negro hangout, she found "the language...