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Songs such as "New Feeling" and "The Book I Read" come from the point of view of a self-absorbed person cautiously venturing out of his isolation. In Byrne's world everyone is too busy to spend time with others--unless you "neglect your duties." "I'll be in trouble" he delcares, but he doesn't care." "I been to college, I been to school," he says, and he's "the smartest man around." But when this self-confident posturer comes in contact with love he has to ask, "Where is my common sense/How...
...Benign Neglect...
With a $38 million budget deficit, high unemployment and 25,000 of its people on food stamps, Guam has plenty of problems. Elected following a campaign stressing "77 years of [U.S.] neglect," Guam Governor Ricardo Bordallo blames Washington for all the difficulties. "You'd be shocked at the number of sophisticates who know nothing about the Pacific," he sighs. "On my first trip to Washington, one Congressman asked me what was the citizenship of the Guamanian people. When I tried to cash a Government of Guam check, one bank manager demanded the address of my embassy...
Rowe suggested that the roots of neglect lie in "ageism," an inaccurate and prejudicial perception of old people. "Physicians cannot afford to neglect ten per cent of the population--a segment that is rapidly growing," said Rowe. "Precise data on their special needs are desparately needed...
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION advocates rightly claim that such preferential treatment is needed to help correct long years of discrimination, abuse and neglect, to help black kids compete on even terms with the white majority. But these minority students are not taking places away only from long-established, well-off white groups--they're also taking them away from the people just above them on the societal ladder, people who have only recently "made it" and are still struggling to move up in society. These groups--Italians, Jews, Germans, Irish, others--have not tyrannized blacks for centuries or profited from the tyranny...