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Social isolation aggravates the effects of highly concentrated poverty. With the absence of strong urban Black middle and working classes, individuals undergoing extended spells of poverty and joblessness can no longer look to the social institutions of their community (such as churches, schools, community groups etc.) for support or to succesful Blacks as role models. In such an environment, joblessness as a way of life tends to lose its stigma and the connection between education and good jobs disappears from sight...
...senior soon to be a "graduate" and "alumna" of this venerable institution, I have recently been over-whelmed by the pomp and circumstance surrounding a Harvard graduation; picnics, lobster clambakes, dances, house ceremonies, yard ceremonies, church ceremonies, etc. After surviving four years of hard work, seniors do deserve a graduation to remember. However, my growing anticipation of June 7-9 has been darkened by my growing concern about holding the event during the middle of the working week and the expense of graduation that must be incurred by the student and his/her family...
...generation. But this show's catalog hums with inflated comparisons and claims. "He seems formed in the Manet mold," writes one contributor, Ian Dunlop, adducing by way of proof that Sultan, like the great Edouard, is ambitious, paints images from "modern life," looks at old master paintings, etc. Sultan does have a crush on Manet; a small still life with asparagus pays homage to Manet's famous single asparagus stalk, and a little detail of masts and sails in Manet's Moonlight over Boulogne Harbor, 1869, is blown up to an 8-ft. square in Sultan's Harbor July...
...union drive as a completely spontaneous call to the masses, perhaps he or she should note that union drive handbooks advise organizers that, "in using publicity, representatives should remember that while his campaign may be based upon facts, he must create an emotional appeal. Words such as `security,' `freedom' [etc.] ...have this appeal." Clearly, the union administration has no problem with calculative strategy...
Somehow, this obvious biological explanation for the explosion of teen problems has escaped the purview of social critics. Religious moralists would have us believe that the problems of pre-marital sex, teen pregnancy, etc. stem from the ills of 20th century society and the breakdown of American morality. Some even confuse cause and effect, emphasizing the pernicious influence of rock music (this means you, Tipper...