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Rafelson peoples his landscape with the misfit fringes of go-ahead America: wheeler-dealers and sham artists, gamblers, petty crooks and rootless wanderers. Though outsiders, they still cherish a belief in Monopoly's promise, winner takes the jackpot. So they circle the board in a frivolous game of one-upmanship, until life sputters out in disillusionment or disaster...
...Prisons Committee, whose direction is equally clear, seems more troubled in its evolution than MHC. Prison Committee chairman Liz Cherish '73 has led the committee away from teaching in prison classrooms toward projects in court-watching legislative research, prisoner group assistance, and parolee assistance. The committee's efforts have expanded enormously. The budget has grown from $267 to $5000 in seven years. The originally small committee first admitted women in the late sixties, growing quickly to the present membership of well over...
...social service image, despite a fascination with the institution of prisons that developed after Attica. She believes--as many chairmen do--that political radicalization follows almost inevitably from exposure to the social institutions with which she deals. As PBH has gotten away from liberal notions of altruism. Cherish thinks, people have increasingly questioned whether work in prison classrooms benefits anyone other than the volunteer. Many committee members, however, feel a responsibility to provide a contact for prisoners with the outside world, and the rate of returning volunteers is unusually high...
...values of the ethnics are under assault, the institutions they cherish-church, family, labor union -under a cloud. They have watched helplessly as the more affluent whites have fled the cities and the poor blacks have taken their place. They feel squeezed between a group that is deserting them and making them bear the brunt of social change and a group that is threatening their schools, neighborhoods and jobs. The combined recession and inflation has hit them hard. Says Baroni: "The ethnic worries how he is going to get the money to send his kid to Penn State...
...little secret. Women don't really want work-as-necessity, work as it is for a man. "Discovering for themselves how very difficult-how fraught with stress and anxiety-is the activity of making one's way in the world of work," most women, in their hearts, cherish smaller ambitions than they may militantly pretend...