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...York: welfare and the Department of Social Services. Susan Sheehan, a writer on the staff of the New Yorker, where this work first appeared in a slightly different form, has written a profile of a Puerto Rican welfare mother, describing for 95 pages the daily comings and goings of Carmen Santana and her family...
...despite some valid insights into the realities of a welfare recipient's daily existence, reading A Welfare Mother is an excrutiatingly frustrating experience. The text ambles through external description without dropping any clues to the humanity behind the name Carmen Santana. It is written as a newspaper article, in crisp, clear, objective, unemotional prose, and from start to finish the journalistic facade never cracks...
...Yale's Carmen Cozza, whose Bulldog squad copped a share of the Ivy League football crown on Saturday, announced his resignation as head coach on Monday...
...Carmen Cozza, the Eli coach whose record against Harvard is 4-6-1 calls Pagliaro "a great running back. He's in the same class as Dick Jauron and Calvin Hill." Pagliaro has already passed Hill's season scoring mark, notching 15 touchdowns, and is closing in on Dick Jauron's 1971 season of 930 yards...
...denied her application because it would "demean the women's movement and expose it to unjustified ridicule" and would "have serious and undesirable repercussions, perhaps throughout the entire country." The precedent, he wrote, might well lead not only to such "inane" name changes as Manning to Peopling and Carmen to Carpersons, but even to words like mankind becoming personkind. Says Cooperman, who plans to appeal: "I'm all for that...