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Nobody likes seeing a young man succeed, but nobody enjoys seeing him suffer either, so it was with eager pity that the nation watched David Stockman eat crow before the press last Thursday. Had Mr. Stockman talked less to the press earlier he would not be squirming now, but garrulity was not his blunder. Mr. Stockman's Administration-shaking mistake was not that he talked, but how he talked. He used a metaphor. Moreover, it was "a rotten, horrible, unfortunate metaphor," as he put it un-metaphorically in his news conference. Yet life would be no rosier...
...simple medium, its messages are often contradictory. Each evening perfect bodies are projected into millions of living rooms. Prime-time grandmothers, whether in sitcoms or the countless ads hawking cosmetics, yogurt, diet soda and designer jeans, hardly look older than the actresses who play their daughters. The crow's-feet and wrinkles by which age and even character are judged have been pneumatically erased. A recent
...history. In this perception, immigrant workers became prey for the big, bad industrialists who stilted the country's public education system and other institutions to channel a docile, well-mannered labor force toward a myriad of unskilled occupations. I.Q. testing and vocational training; the eugenics movement and the Jim Crow laws--all belong to an ideology of oppression that envisions America's oppotunity as an unfulfilled promise, a myth for the masses in despair...
...income of white parents. Even worse, black colleges have come under harsh attack from a few influential black educators on grounds that they reinforce racism. In an article in the Nation, for example, Psychologist Kenneth Clark wrote: "Black colleges perpetuate inferior academic standards for black students and award Jim Crow degrees that do not meet the standards of the average traditionally white colleges...
...wife for 51 years, and for the first time became aware of "the magnitude of racial bias in the U.S." Schools, movies, restaurants, even drinking fountains were segregated. "It was a slow accumulation of humiliations and grievances," he recalled. "Kansas City ate my heart out. It was a Jim Crow town through and through...