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...Spanish. Hushed on other days, St. Peter's is no church of silence when an audience is in session. As the Pope read off the list of the day's visiting organizations, the great basilica rang with sound-handclapping and whistles, shrill, peeping vivas from nuns and grade-school delegations, deep-toned cheers from seminarians...
...week Coles tape-recorded interviews with each of the Negroes and a dozen of their white classmates, half of them from intensely segregationist families. By 1962, his "patients" included 40 more integrated Negro students and additional whites, plus numerous teachers and parents. Once a month, he similarly interviewed 19 grade-school children in New Orleans including the four Negroes who went through desegregation riots there in 1960. Along the way, he scoured other integration hot spots from Little Rock to Clinton, Tenn...
Each weekday morning, a blue U.S. Air Force bus grinds slowly up the hills of Sonnenberg, West Germany, between ancient gabled houses and the ruins of a castle. At the Konrad Duden elementary school, it discharges a noisy load of American grade-school children from nearby Wiesbaden. Minutes later they are answering Frau Hertha Viehweger's questions-in easy, fluent German...
Moreover, the highly educated seem to share this glad acceptance to a remarkable degree. But the better-educated viewer says he likes serious programs much more often than the grade-school group. Those with seven to eight years of school never watch heavy drama, while 11% of the most educated go for the Ibsen-substitutes when available. While only 5% of the grade-school audience are interested in information and public affairs, 13% of the college group and 23% of postgraduates declare that they like it best...
...living room, they actually watch. Checking their viewing records in an ARB rating, he discovers that the only kind of program they choose considerably more often than the average man is heavy drama. During the evening hours, they spend only 4% less time watching "light entertainment" shows than grade-school addicts, only 2% more time watching news, only 1% more time watching public affairs shows. To Steiner, the difference among educational groups lies "not in what they do, but how they feel about it." Essentially, the Harvard lawyer, or FCC Chairman Newt Minow, selects the same programs and spends...