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This increase has been caused, says Dr. Vincent Fontana, head of the New York City task force on child abuse, by "the stresses and strains that our society is suffering today-the frustrations, the poor quality of life, the increase in drug addiction and alcoholism." Fontana, like other child-abuse experts, expects things to get even worse this year with unemployment on the rise. Preliminary figures seem to bear him out. Wayne County, Mich. (Detroit), reported 219 cases in the first two months of 1975, compared with 163 in the same period of 1974. In Fulton County, Ga. (Atlanta...
...frustrations on children and another does not. But to some extent violence runs in families. As Louis Jolyon West, chairman of U.C.L.A.'s psychiatry department, puts it, "There is a remarkable likelihood that parents who batter have been battered themselves as children." New York City's Fontana sees child abuse not only as a self-perpetuating problem but as a training ground for general violence as well. "The eleven, twelve-and 13-year-old murderers we see today," he says, "come from violent homes where they were battered...
Except for the Rodin, a Matisse crucifix and some early bas-reliefs by Lucio Fontana, there is hardly a sculpture worth preserving in the whole collection...
...Harvard contingent, however, didn't go it alone. In keeping with the seven day celebration, handyman Everett recruited two of the finest trombone artists playing today: Phil Wilson, trombone teacher at Boston's Berklee College of Music and Woody Herman band soloist in the sixties, and Carl Fontana, one of the best trombonists in the West, a veteran of the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton bands of the fifties...
...Everett unveiled his headliners in the second half, an aura of professionalism blanketed the local performers. Fontana, a sprawling red-shirted mass, bellowed out a beautiful, conventional rendition of "Polka Dots and Moonbeams," and then offered a fine interpretation of Bill Howard's "Carl," with an ingenious improvisational tag. The classicist gave way to the more experimental Wilson, who flirted with his own creation "Mother England." Wilson "kibbitzed" with his instrument, contorting the sound until an exasperated Fontana blurted out from the wings, "You can't do that with the trombone...