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This general approach also seems to contradict Carter's frequently expressed concern for the underprivileged in society. As he has noted, the draft evaders are overwhelmingly white and middleclass. A report prepared for President Ford in 1975 placed 87% of them in this category. The deserters are largely poor and disproportionately black-more than 50% low-income and 20% black. In general, the more affluent, better-educated war resisters found the means to avoid service by evading the draft; the underprivileged submitted, turning against the war later, if at all, by deserting...
...trend. Many Northern blacks are apprehensive about the South, and some of those who left retain traumatic memories. But countless blacks are moving to the South, fleeing the Northern cities' high crime rates, high prices and deteriorating schools. For the most part, the people moving South are middleclass, educated blacks, who are better equipped than poorer blacks to take advantage of the region's new opportunities. Some of the new migrants gave their views to TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce...
...more effectively satirized the solemn absurdity of the Masters and Johnson laboratory ("I'm Sorry, Dear") or more wittily staged the gauche bedroom farce of the puritan turned hedonist ("My Wife, the Naked Movie Star"). But Farber is not content to do one more clever number on middleclass, middle-aged America sweating and puffing toward its Utopian orgasm. What sets him apart is an uncynical pity for the angelic apes squirming at the chain's end of lust, even as they proclaim their liberation. Patiently, with a certain relentless compassion, he demonstrates that one can will...
...FRIEND OF MINE is doing some research in the archive in Ferrara, Italy, aimed at finding out more about the city's overall design in the Renaissance and the role peasants and the middleclass played in its formation. The reason she's doing primary research in an area already pretty-well covered is quite simple: she believes that not all decisions about Ferrara's layout were based on the abstract, aesthetic principles espoused by the city's ruling elite and the artisans they patronized. She's not sure what role the middle-class merchants and peasants played but, unlike most...
...sermons and uplift. They went for the "Joggers Jubilee" and a concert by the Anita Bryant Singers. The back-slapping men in plaid jackets, the women in bouffant hairdos and red-white-and-blue dresses, feel good-feel almost evangelical-about a church that is strong and successful and middleclass. For all its hierarchical looseness, the Southern Baptist empire extends to scores of colleges, newspapers and other holdings. The budget to be voted on this week calls for a record $55 million for missionary work and social welfare. "There is a new sense of mission," Executive Committee Secretary Porter Routh...