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While they are being hotly courted on all sides, blue collar workers are also being severely criticized by traditional friends and opponents alike. Political liberals, who once considered workingmen their most reliable allies, now often see them?rather simplistically?as supporters of racism and repression. Black leaders condemn many unions for systematically excluding Negroes. Many other Americans think of labor as fat, lazy and arrogant, a condition exemplified in their minds by the $10-an-hour auto mechanic, the $15-an-hour plumber and the $18,000-a-year carpenter...
...circumstance into parody: the black athlete became a token Eskimo. Randall and Klugman also lose battles. They were embarrassed by the third segment in the series, which lost bits of subtle humor to give more time to a leering portrayal of Oscar hustling an airline stewardess. The actors condemn the use of canned laughter as "an atrocity" and fume at the network's excision of the characters' children from the story. Randall complains that "ABC Standards & Practices says that divorced people don't have children. In the play, the fact that the men had children placed...
that the university condemn House Bill 1219, a bill passed by the Ohio state legislature which provides for the immediate suspension of students arrested for disruptions, and the automatic one-year suspension of students found guilty of disruption...
that the university condemn the indictment of the 25 students, non-students and faculty members by the Ohio grand jury...
...workingmen. In so doing, he is going against the popular political dicta offered by Richard Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg in their recent book The Real Majority (TIME, Aug. 31). One of their theses holds that American voters will accept only centrist candidates who are willing to acknowledge and condemn violent social unrest. Walinsky dismisses that argument. "This Scammon-Wattenberg middle is a lot of crap," he says. "You can appeal to differing sides of the spectrum...