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More likely, dearie, you'll hold down two jobs-'cause when you get home from that executive job in the sky, there ain't gonna be no unliberated woman left (and certainly no man) to do your grub work. Join the rat race without me. I'll take it like...
Choice of Grub. Breaking a traditional reticence, top officers of Scotland Yard seemed to be starting a campaign aimed at building public support for harsher treatment of criminals. In what the London Times called "a rare and remarkable statement of police philosophy," two senior Scotland Yard officers sharply criticized the politicians and courts for what they termed excessive leniency. Said Peter Brodie, assistant commissioner in charge of crime investigations: "My colleagues and I remember when a villain got a whacking sentence and was sent to Dartmoor. There he got flogged, he broke stones and he sewed mailbags. After...
Among the social functions performed by poverty, says Gans, is the guarantee of status to the nonpoor. The working class needs the poor to look down on; the aristocracy, by busying itself with settlement houses and charity balls, justifies its existence and proves its superiority to workers who grub for money. Beyond that, the poor "offer vicarious participation to the rest of the population in the uninhibited sexual, alcoholic and narcotic behavior in which they are alleged to participate." They have a cultural role too: Americans have taken over much music that was born in the slums, and poetry...
...ornithologists, the distinctive yap-yap-yap call and drumming of the large (19 in.) ivory-billed woodpecker have not been heard in significant numbers in the U.S. since the late 1930s, when all but a few of the birds were wiped out by loggers who cut down rotten, grub-filled swamp timber on which the woodpeckers fed. Now an official of the National Audubon Society named Robert Manns claims that he has heard one woodpecker's cries in the desolate Santee Swamp, near Columbia, S.C. The South Carolina Public Service Authority has heard Manns. The authority, which controls Santee...
Left for Scavengers. More than anything else, Grub is appalled at civilized burial customs. When he and his three-year-old friend Rebecca found a dead bird, she wanted to bury it. Says Jane: "He was horrified. He thought the idea of hiding something that had been alive under the earth was quite obscene." Grub, a proper jungle child, knew that dead creatures should be left for scavengers...