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...kids are not quite the new illiterati that is widely supposed. Professor Robert Thorndike of Columbia Teachers College recently supervised a study of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. The preschoolers of 1971-72 (both middle class and inner city) scored an average of ten points higher than their (solely middleclass) counterparts of the '30s. Says Thorndike: "Today's kids, in general, do better on tests, even with the '50s hoopla over Why Johnny Can't Read. The truth is, more Johnnies are reading better than 20,30,40 years ago." Unfortunately, however, many Johnnies...
...Jewett-Arthurs letter stated that "probably 75 per cent or more" of Harvard's black students come from middleclass backgrounds and that "those few students who are admitted here from poorer backgrounds tend to outperform their more traditionally prepared classmates...
...soul? That's not what Hills found, and his report has the leaden ring of truth. The trouble is, while the upper class, where it still exists, is born to leisure, and the lower class is in sporadic danger of having leisure thrust upon it, the poor old middleclass, middle-aged man is a creature of work. He is his work and is so acknowledged by those he meets at cocktail parties: "Ah, you're a fiction editor," or "Ah, you're a wire man for the White House." If the workadaddy (Tom Wolfe's useful...
...could rise up to some degree." He is antiracist: "If someone asked my wife to sit in the back of the bus, I'd be the meanest man alive." He explains part of the reason he is voting for Nixon: "The political values of this country are mainly middleclass. Because this group believes in human rights, people have sometimes been too anxious to right any human wrong that occurs, and they have given the Federal Government powers to go in and right what seems wrong at the time. But you are never going to get those powers back from...
...1960s. Correspondent Cloud, who accompanied the tour, reported that "there is no hint of war here. The 8,000 airmen work an eight-hour day and then are free to loll at poolside or watch a movie. For the most part, they appear uniformly clean-cut and middleclass. 'It seemed a good place to learn my job and advance my career,' said Captain Claude Hamilton, 28, of Waco, Texas." Asked about the dangers to civilians in the use of B-52s to bomb the heavily populated Mekong Delta (see box, next page), the crewmen insisted that if mistakes...