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Reflecting on this marginal middle class from the perspective of the 1950s, Negro Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier wrote a scathing critique of what he called the black bourgeoisie. He derided its typical member as "half a man in a white man's country." The bourgeoisie, he concluded, "suffers from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: America's Rising Black Middle Class | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

The committee, equally composed of students and faculty, conferred for nearly 30 hours before delivering what most claimed was the inevitable compromise. Instead of an excellent-pass-marginal-fail system, pre-clinical students would now be graded on an excellent-pass-fail plan. The marginal mark was changed to a...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Med Students Protest New Grade System | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

He accepted Harvard's offer of a visiting professorship, and, with a handful of others, has been trying since 1971 to elevate preventive medicine from its marginal importance at the Medical School. But his success has been limited. After a steady diet of Dr. Kildaire and Marcus Welby, Americans are...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: Odyssey of a Homesick Healer | 5/15/1974 | See Source »

The lines on the Malthusian chart are ominous: if the present birthrate continues, someday-perhaps as early as 2025-there will be more people than the earth can feed, given its present technology. Photos by earth satellites reveal that the world's most productive land is already cultivated, convenient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGER: Famine Casts Its Grim Global Shadow | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

The group reaches all its decisions by consensus. The smallness of the group permits "marginal differences of opinion to remain marginal," according to Blum.

Author: By Wendy B. Jackson, | Title: What It Does | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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