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...discussing national health insurance [Oct. 12], you help to perpetuate the naive assumption that American mortality and longevity statistics can be correlated entirely with inadequacy of medical care. Unless the significance of poverty, ignorance, violence, intemperance, malnutrition and child neglect are added to the equation, the assumption that improved medical systems would automatically place U.S. longevity in the first rank is bound to produce disappointment and recrimination...
...education, where man's affective aspect is largely overlooked, the movement is probing a long-neglected area. Max Birnbaum, associate professor of human relations at Boston University, who believes that this neglect is in large part responsible for the counterculture subscribed to by the younger generation, feels that the answer to youth's disaffection might lie in the new movement. He sees the day when the learning experience will involve a group of peers, "in contrast to the traditional classroom, with the teacher as an authority figure and the students as charges." This model is already taking shape...
...brown. Although she expertly captures the plethora of traffic signs-many of which simply read "No, No, No"-that channel us through the Square, traffic is reduced to a stylistic minimum. One notes an occasional piece of litter, but hardly enough to suggest that, out of the city's neglect and our own apathy, littler here is the norm. Her people-most of whom resemble busy little dwarfs with sly little smiles-all hurry toward their destinies with a real sense of direction. American flags fly from the buildings...
Sensible System. Lawyers take a different position. Many argue that malpractice suits enable society to help bear the cost of human tragedy, and they support Los Angeles Attorney David Harney's contention that the medical community has a "proneness toward patient neglect and disregard." They also defend the contingent-fee system on the grounds that it enables even the poorest patient to bring his case to court...
...Black and White. His new book, Crisis in the Classroom (Random House; $10), is likely to be as widely discussed as James B. Conant's 1959 report, The American High School Today. Silberman finds that even highly reputed schools are so preoccupied with order and discipline that they neglect real education...