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...outnumber whites, the anti-assimilationist theory has become accepted practice: Miami's youth can take twelve years of bilingual public schooling with no pretense made that the program is transitional toward anything. The potential for separatism is greater in Los Angeles. Philip Hawley, president of the Carter Hawley Hale retail store chain, cautions: "This is the only area in the U.S. that over the next 50 years could have a polarization into two distinct cultures, of the kind that brought about the Quebec situation in Canada." Professor Rodolfo Acuña of California State University at Northridge concurs. Says...
...Heywood Hale Broun...
Surviving in such an emotional climate was a challenge that Heywood Hale Broun was barely able to meet. It has taken the television commentator 50 years to recover, and even now he bears scars. Yet in this poignant memoir, Broun, 65, manages to salute two forthright eccentrics who "probably shouldn't have gotten married; probably should never have had a child; and probably shouldn't, after 17 years of marriage, have gotten divorced...
Woodie's mother, Ruth Hale, was an early feminist and first president of the Lucy Stone League, a group of married women who retained their own names. Friends called the couple "the clinging oak and the sturdy vine." The Brouns believed in absolute equality of the sexes and ages; what better place to demonstrate their faith than in the home? Accordingly, the boy who ached to be special was instructed to call his parents by their first names, just like everyone else. When he was seven, Ruth gave him lessons in deportment: "May I remind you of the words...
Whose Little Boy Are You? is that basement. Here, three souls continue to skirmish in a classic recollection of liberalism carried to the point of tyranny. Perhaps in her reading, Ruth Hale ran across another observation by Oscar Wilde: "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." This is one of those rare and rueful times...