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...their baby sitter or their housekeeper or the kid who mowed the lawn. In West Palm Beach, Florida, a perplexed person walked into an IRS office and asked for the "Zoe Baird Package" of forms. "That's all people are talking about," says Nancy Ransom, director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center at Vanderbilt University. "This is not just a problem for the poor, the rich or the middle class. This is a problem for everyone...
...incompetent teachers. Sociology Professor Robert Nisbet of the University of California's Riverside campus calls tenure "a blend of mystique and the sacred, as nearly impregnable a form of differential privilege as the mind of man has ever devised." The teaching profession, says the Danforth Foundation's Merrimon Cuninggim, "is the only profession that has no definition for malpractice." Even mental deterioration is no cause for dismissal, and, says Nisbet, "a single man can cause intellectual blight year after year" in students and faculty...
...Case of Fire. Dr. Merrimon Cuninggim, dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, ticked off the South's "moth-eaten and decrepit" defenses of segregation (e.g., "The Negroes lack our standards in health, morality and marital fidelity"), scoffed in answer: "Then, if so, let's get to work on them. What do we do when the house catches fire, even the back room? Take a walk? . . . Most of us are getting tired of seeing ministers and laymen react as Southerners first and Christians second...
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