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...handy man with words, Lewis called the 24th Ward "a socio-economic garbage heap." He was fond of pointing out that "there are 75.000 people squeezed into my ward, more than Joliet or Waukegan, and almost as many as Springfield, Ill. We have the highest percentage of high-school dropouts and the highest percentage of people on relief. We have the highest rate of unemployment, the highest rate of juvenile delinquency and a very high rate of apathy and disillusionment." Lewis even moved actively against the miseries of overpopulation. During his last campaign he had his precinct workers distribute "little...
Some of the book's more intriguing findings concern the "average" American viewer. He has no more than a high-school education, an annual income of less than $8,000, and accounts for more than three-quarters of all television homes. His opinion of TV ranges from "extreme, unqualified" positive ("I love it-it moves me just like a woman") to "extreme, unqualified" negative ("It comes from the devil"). On the whole, though, he thinks it's just fine, at least as Psychologist Steiner interprets...
...ideal deteriorates, however, when we examine student groupings within these dorms. One sophomore, now living in a fraternity, noted that during his freshman year in a dorm he met very few people. He had come to Cal with several friends from high-school, and had been so overwhelmed by the size of his dorm that he rarely moved outside his small group...
...Dear Herbert," Mary wrote in the return mail, "I have decided to get engaged to John [John was Herbert's high-school rival]. He thinks I am the most wonderful girl in the world...
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee is a 1,800-acre farm run largely by its 100 boarding boys and girls, who pay tuition. Under a unique setup, their high-school education is provided by the Rabun County public school system, which gives the farm school $1 a year as rent for classrooms, supplies ten teachers and 130 day students (who pay no tuition). To compound these contradictions, overall control is vested in the Presbyterian Synod of Georgia, and the school trustees make a point of seeing to it that religion is stressed for all 230 students...