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...poor, simply by standing still, are caught up in a kind of geometric regression. For the most part, they are those whom the welfare state never brushed, a residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker in California's Imperial Valley, the illiterate Harlem dishwasher. They exist, as Michael Harrington wrote in The Other America, "beyond history, beyond progress, sunk in a paralyzing, maiming routine...
...brothers de Pasquale, the concert was the realization of an old man's dream. Papa de Pasquale, an im migrant violin teacher, had one ideal in life: to raise a professional string quartet. But in Germantown baseball was the thing, and the de Pasquale boys were forever tossing their baseball equipment out of the second-floor window and sneaking off to the diamond. On Sunday afternoons, however, they were held captive in the living room and made to listen to recordings by Kreisler and Casals. "That's what it should sound like," Papa would say, and then...
...Moral Issue. When the strike began, Chávez could count on the sympathy of only a few churchmen, mostly the radical young Protestants of the California Migrant Ministry. Gradually, more influential Christian leaders came to see in the strike a moral issue: the need to end the grapes-of-wrath poverty of the farm workers...
...Working on an Indian reservation or with migrant workers...
...Music & Migrants. Also growing in popularity is a shorter-term midwinter period in which classes are suspended and entire student bodies spend a month (usually January) in wide-ranging individual research. This innovation was pioneered by Florida Presbyterian and Colby, has spread to Colgate and about 20 other colleges. The variety of projects is limitless. A group of Colgate students went to Jamaica to study tropical-island biology. A Florida Presbyterian student went to work in a migrant-labor camp...