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...doctrinal attitude toward children-for or against-is not the prevailing approach of most Americans. Michael Novak suggests that only the "idea elite," the 10% of the population in well educated, upper-income groups whose work centers on education, the professions, communications or some such -may harbor ideological or even environmental biases against children. That group could not have accounted by itself for the almost uninterrupted decline in the U.S. birth rate in the 70s. It is very likely that the economics of child rearing has had much to do with the trend toward smaller families, which has been encouraged...
...Chicago's Sandburg Village, a nine-tower apartment complex long considered one of the last rental havens on the city's elegant near North Side, discovered that theirs was about to become one of the largest condominium conversions ever. The buildings had been sold to a development group for $110 million. Says Barbara Molotsky, a tenant who pays $370 a month for her one-bedroom apartment and may have to hand over $50,000 to buy it: "I don't want to buy, but there just aren't any rentals left...
...still largely an upper-income phenomenon, since the mortgage and maintenance can cost as much as 50% more than renting the same space. Developers commonly claim that most of the rental tenants elect to buy their apartments rather than move. But, says Gary Lowe, a leader of a consumer group called CHAIN (for California Housing, Action and Information Network), "Certainly in California, less than 5% of renters buy into a condominium. And no wonder. They can't afford...
Although the Clash assaults some familiar enemies (cops, narcs, soldiers and teachers), the group has no safe targets - not even themselves. Cheapskate is a bit of ironic bemusement about rock stardom, both its perks ("Just because we're in a group you think we're stinking rich/ 'N' we all got model girls shedding every stitch") and its permanence ("I'll get out my money and make a bet/ That I'll be seeing you down the launderette"). A fever-blister rocker called Safe European Home concerns the lads' attempts to seek...
Mick Jones, who writes most of the Clash repertoire with Strummer, hopes that their music can be "an il lumination." Such an ambition might seem unsuitably lofty but for the fact that the group comes from a tradition that uses music not only as an outlet but as a force, an effective instrument of social change. "The record company's making out we're politicians, and that's a load of stuff," sneers Strummer, but Jones may cut a little closer when he recalls the title of his school song, Servants of the State...