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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Violence is not only an urban but overwhelmingly a lower-class phenomenon. In Atlanta, for example, neighborhoods with family incomes below $3,000 show a violent-crime rate eight times higher than among $9,000 families. In the middle class, violence is perhaps sublimated increasingly in sport or other pursuits. Says Sociologist Wolfgang: "The gun and fist have been substantially replaced by financial ability, by the capacity to manipulate others in complex organizations, and by intellectual talent. The thoughtful wit, the easy verbalizer, even the striving musician and artist are equivalents of male assertiveness, where broad shoulders and fighting fists...
...which the British gentility, whose conduct has always provided rich material for gossip and journalism, long shrouded matters sexual. But much of it is the result of a very real change in respectable middle-class morality, once considered a bastion against the sexual mores of both the upper and lower classes. Illegal abortions are estimated to be running between 100,000 and 200,000 annually; divorce petitions have risen 50% in the last five years to some 42,000 a year; illegitimate births have doubled in a decade and gone up to some 60,000 a year...
...Village Gate, he rippled off rocking arpeggios and lacy melodies in such original com positions as Echoes of Spring and Passionette; then, in up-tempo drivers like I Found a New Baby and Sweet Georgia Brown, he unleashed his juggernaut left hand to stride and stomp around the lower half of the keyboard while his right hand danced up high in finger-blurring filigrees or punched out syncopated chords. A resplendent showman in his red vest, derby and cigar (which he occasionally chomps in half during the heat of creation, especially when singing), he continues to strike inventive sparks...
Upper Slovenia may sound like Lower Slobbovia to the uninitiated, but all good apiculturalists know that this portion of the Alps, located in Yugoslavia, is headquarters for one of the sweetest forms of folk art ever practiced. From the early 1700s until the beginning of the 20th century, beekeeping flourished in Upper Slovenia, and mountaineers ornamented their long, flat hives with small, gaily painted panels. So beguiling are they that collectors from Switzerland, Austria and even France have lately taken to combing the hills to find them. And last week, to show their richness and variety, the Ethnographical Museum...
...crowd of 25,000 packing Rio's Maracanazinho Stadium included favela dwellers and members of Brazil's lower middle class, their swarthy faces reflecting their country's racial mix. Decorously dressed in black suits and flowered dresses, they were moved by evangelical zeal: when a 2,000-voice choir began to sing, everyone joined in. Afterward, a trickle of shouted individual prayers grew into a waterfall roar. Last week's rally, at the Eighth Pentecostal World Conference, eloquently illustrated the power and missionary success of one of the century's fastest-growing religious movements...