Word: harrington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who had read his book The Other America, Michael Harrington seemed especially business-like in his discussion of poverty at the Winthrop House Forum last night. Avoiding the rhetoric of the book, Harrington carefully outlined the "problems of at least 40 million impoverished Americans" to an audience of about...
When he discussed the various justifications of a war on poverty, for instance, Harrington glossed over the traditional "brotherhood" arguments, and gave more considerable time to the "cash-and-carry" argument. In the long run, he said, it will probably be much cheaper to abolish poverty than to continue maintaining it with government funds...
...Harrington helped to make it so. His book, The Other America: Poverty in the U.S., has sold 70,000 hard-cover and paperback copies. It impressed Jack Kennedy, who used the Harrington phrase "the invisible poor" in his speeches. Presidential Economic Adviser Walter Heller is thoroughly familiar with Harrington's thin, 191-page volume; when Heller told Johnson that he had been assigned by Kennedy to draw up an anti-poverty program, Lyndon agreed that it was a good idea. It is especially a good idea for politicians in an election year too. Only last week the President named...
...Bleak & Grim." Author Harrington has not been consulted, but it is clear that his book contributed to Johnson's new drive. Born into relative comfort in St. Louis (his father was a patent attorney), Harrington went to Holy Cross
...Among Strangers." The U.S., argues Harrington, handles its impoverished older people with a "storage-bin philosophy" and they are "trapped in the decaying central area of the city, living among strangers ... in a land where youth is worshiped and death is rarely mentioned by name. America really doesn't care about them...