Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For eleven days, Superior Court Judge Robert Muir Jr. of Morris County, N.J., pondered the painful, unprecedented legal problem: Did the anguished parents of 21-year-old Karen Anne Quinlan have the right to switch off the respirator that had kept her alive since she fell into a deep coma...
His account of those experiences, Death at an Early Age, won the National Book Award, became a classic among educational reformers and made him something of a celebrity among the radical/liberal intelligentsia. One factor in the book's popularity, which pictured the Boston school machine as caring little for teachers...
THE BEST DEVELOPED part of the book describes the role modern schools play as protectors of social order. Kozol tells us that the first objective of public schooling is the perpetuation of the American value system, that history texts fail to deal with American imperialism so future soldiers will be...
City officials and sympathizers, meanwhile, embarked on a national campaign to try to encourage such feelings. In Washington, New York Mayor Abraham Beame cited the ways in which the city had cut back: a reduction of almost 36,000 public jobs, a freeze on wage increases and new construction, a...
President Ford's attacks on beleaguered New York seem to have stirred a backlash of sympathy for the profligate city. As if in recognition of this, Betty Ford adopted a more conciliatory attitude when she went to New York to accept a Family of Man award for the President...