Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Housing is still the national scandal it was then," says the report. "Schools are more tedious and turbulent. The rate of crime and unemployment and disease and heroin addiction are higher than ever. Welfare rolls are larger. And, with few exceptions, the relations between minority communities and the police are just as hostile." If such trends continue, the report concludes bleakly, "most cities by 1980 will be predominantly black and brown, and totally bankrupt...
...most prominent musical result these days is black beatitudes of sorts called What's Going On. The LP laments war, pollution, heroin and the miseries of ghetto life. It also praises God and Jesus, blesses peace, love, children and the poor. Musically it is a far cry from the gospel or blues styles a black singer-composer might normally apply to such subjects. Instead Gaye weaves a vast, melodically deft symphonic pop suite in which Latin beats, soft soul and white pop, and occasionally scat and Hollywood schmalz, yield effortlessly to each other. The overall style of the album...
Clearly, leaving college can turn into a purposeless drift through trivial jobs and futile distractions. The specter of a dropout's destroying himself on heroin haunts many a parent (though the prevalence of drugs on campus makes life in academe less reassuring than it used...
DuPont's report may have broad implications for authorities in other U.S. cities. Officials in New York City, who base their figures heavily on police, hospital and treatment-program records rather than on the kind of screening now performed in the capital, estimate that there are 150,000 heroin addicts in the nation's largest city. Washington's experience suggests that the New York figure...
...heart of the population problem is a paradoxical question: Is a growing population a social disaster or a social resource? Or, to put it another way, will a larger population produce more poets or just more heroin addicts? And which of the two will prevail...