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Dowling recalled that the 1968 Eli squad was a close-knit outfit, No one resented Dowling and his press clippings, and his larger-than-life image may even have helped the team. "I didn't mind that the press made me out to be a legend," he said, "If everyone thought I had some sort of unnatural control over my teammates, I wasn't going to contradict them, especially if it had a good effect...
...example, as well as what might be called sheer morbid faddishness. The more people hear suicide discussed as an honorable solution to the pangs of living, the more people-given other stresses-are likely to try it. It is statistically true that if anyone in a child's close-knit world commits suicide, the child's chances of eventually doing the same thing increase by as much...
...patterns of earlier years still hold true in the Shklar household where Mrs. Shklar and her husband (a professor at Harvard Medical School) don't have time to go out, except separately, each with a different child, to concerts and the like. An extremely close-knit family, they prefer to stay home and make their own music. Predictably brushing off her own merits as a pianist, Mrs. Shklar is lavish with her praise of the musical talents of the rest of the family. "I'm square," she says repeatedly, and this is the same term she uses for her taste...
Another problem is unemployment, which stands at more than 50%. The population has doubled since the end of World War II, but jobs have not kept pace. Some people have moved away, but the close-knit community life in Barrow ties its residents to the city. The Prudhoe Bay oil strike, 200 miles to the east, has so far meant only about two dozen jobs in Barrow. The Government remains the biggest local employer; there is a branch of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for example, and a Naval Arctic Research Lab just outside town...
...concern is that the children will lose part of the close-knit community's ancient cultural heritage. "At least that's what they say to you," one Chinese-American teacher contends. "But if you could speak Chinese, you'd learn they just don't want their children going to school with blacks." As of last week, at least 3,000 Chinese children were still boycotting the schools...