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...Army had attempted to muzzle and harass him. Citing stress on his wife and daughter, Herbert announced he would voluntarily retire in February after 20 years. At 41, he was on his way out, passing his final months in the Army initialing papers at Fort McPherson near Atlanta. His dead-end job was once shared by Captain Ernest L. Medina...
...Court decision that outlawed public school segregation. Now the Brown decision has taken on fresh legal currency for another deprived group-the estimated 1,200,000 school-age children who are classified as retarded. In many school jurisdictions the least able of the retarded youngsters are placed in the dead-end category of "uneducable and untrainable" by school psychologists. Once that label is applied to a child, the schools are relieved of their obligation to train...
...spends his spare time working on cars: something that adds meaning to his life beyond going bowling and getting drunk on weekends. But he knows the same dead-end schools will educate his children, who will follow him into the mills just as he followed his father and grandfather. Which is as good a reason to get drunk...
...other leg-leave him in much the same state as contemporary art. He is a minimal man trying to make more out of less. At the end of the book, Arthur is snug in an abandoned church with a girl who seems to symbolize science as a dead-end faith. The couple eats whatever falls off passing produce trucks, and Arthur amuses himself by composing epigrams from an incomplete alphabet of movable letters on the church bulletin board. Greenberg's philosophical cartooning is a bit overly contrived, but it succeeds because Greenberg keeps his tale both tactful and short...
...time for a new oppressed minority to arise against the other oppressed minorities: the Nader's Raiders of ethnicity, blowing the whistle on narrow aims and self-serving performances. To measure the dead-end futility of the touchiness game, one must imagine the final absurdity. The year is 2000, and a new oppressed minority has surfaced. Chapters are formed, stationery is bought. Letters are typed to the New York Times...