Word: class
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story was interesting but inconclusive. You failed to point out the chief casualties of the current smut cycle: style, class and grace, which continue to be indispensable qualities of enduring art. Today's vendors of sexual kitsch have kept the dirty bath water (in some cases literally) and thrown out the baby, and with it their chances of eventual survival. Boredom will rescue us from their brand of entertainment...
...well-qualified administrator putting in long hours and trying to do a first-rate job. He fits the image of a proper, upright, law-abiding citizen of humble background who has succeeded through perseverance. With a lovely wife and two very correct daughters, the whole family represents solid middle-class achievement. Beyond that, I think that in his views he represents the great consensus of the American people on the subjects of the day-law and order, campus disorders, civil rights...
Conflicting Constituencies. Their differences are political and philosophical, not personal. Nixon and Finch serve conflicting constituencies. In his courtship of the broad American middle class, Nixon has largely ignored the very groups that his HEW chief must serve-the poor, the black, the young and the disadvantaged. In so doing, he has undercut his fellow Californian and made his already complex job even more difficult...
...city's 23,000 teachers, they are heavily concentrated in its 255 predominantly Negro schools. Of the more than 600 public schools, only 240 have integrated faculties, 214 have no black teachers at all, 12 have only black teachers. In Chicago's white working-class District 1, where black students make up 9.2% of the high school enrollment, black teachers account for only 1.4% of the faculty. In the Austin section, District 4, where Poles and Irish are gradually being replaced by blacks-who account for 26% of the high-school enrollment-there is only one Negro teacher...
...brilliant, almost straight-A student throughout his years in the Montclair public school system, Aldrin went on to West Point, where he finished third in a class of 475. After combat duty in Korea, he was assigned to the U.S. Air Force Academy as aide to the dean of the faculty, then flew fighters in West Germany. He began thinking about joining the space program, but decided that he needed more education. After getting his doctorate from M.I.T. in 1963?46 years after his father had received his bachelor's degree there?Aldrin was selected for the third group...