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...remaining 5%? Some live in mountain areas like Appalachian Georgia, or the new ski-resort town of Vail, Colo., where cable TV has not yet penetrated. Some Americans cannot afford to buy a TV set, although more American homes have TV than have telephones or bathrooms, and, as the Kerner Commission reported, television is "the universal appliance in the ghetto." Thus, many of the 5% who do not have TV sets are just plain holdouts or former TV addicts who have kicked the habit. Rather than being culturally deprived, many of the nonowners and nonwatchers are-or see themselves...
...think New York is governable," said Lindsay. "But we've got to go through sound barriers. No one should be surprised at some of the things going on. In the Kerner Commission Report [on civil disorders] we pointed out that this polarization of extreme forces would occur. The centrists and the moderates have to keep fighting to keep the extremist elements from colliding head on and killing each other. That's what democracy is all about-trying to steer a middle peaceful course between chaos at one end and tyranny at the other...
...Humphrey claims to support the rational recommendations of the Kerner report. In the light of his hair-trigger snaps of "shut up" to hecklers, I seriously question his capacity of restraint and better judgment, were he faced with the problem of dealing with violence and crime...
...KERNER Commission Report described a mood and a problem--that of "white racism" in America and the growing spirit of discontent by black people--and the Cox report performs a similar task in discussing the basic causes of student discontent and showing the "authoritarianism" of Columbia's administration and trustees. It has therefore provided a distinct service, especially to the so-called "establishment" which so often blames campus uprisings on radical or revolutionary students supposedly dedicated only to destruction and violence. The Cox Commission has established that the Columbia rebellion was not all due to SDS members and their "exaggeration...
...primary failure of the Cox report is that--unlike the Kerner Commission Report--Crisis at Columbia does not deal with solutions or propose ways to proceed. Where Kerner's group made specific recommendations on what could be done to improve the status of black people in America and the condition of our cities, Cox and his fellow commissioners conclude with a set of idealistic hopes on the way universities should be rather than what should be done. For instance, the Report states that the "university is essentially a free community of scholars dedicated to the pursuit of truth and knowledge...