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...barely an exaggeration to say that by 1900 women had no visual culture they could call their own. Only two art activities were left to them. Well brought-up girls could do small watercolors, which were considered signs of "accomplishment," like a precarious tinkling on the pianoforte. Poorer girls, on the other hand, could make craft objects like pots or quilts. But such craftwork was also by reigning definition not high art. Since women's talent had been deprived of a social context in which it could make art, there was no problem in branding it as minor...
...having been born and raised in Knoxville. Tennessee throw his particular affection for the white families of the Ricketts, the Gudgers and the Woods? As would be expected of any child brought up in the deep South, was Agee taught at an early age to look down on the poorer white population and to hate the blacks? Was Let Us Now Praise an exorcism of an inculcated condescension...
...workingman was making him more concerned about the destruction of his property and street crime than about maldistribution of power and wealth. In fact, crime is a real concern for the workingman, white and black, and the fear of walking the street at night is generally more real in poorer neighborhoods than in rich ones...
...economic scale felt most strongly that Calley was only rightfully following orders. Their judgment, says Professor Herbert Kelman, one of the scholars who prepared the study, "reflects their whole relationship to society, the feeling that they are pawns, not independent agents." Kelman thinks that this self-assessment by poorer Americans is accurate: "In reality they are not their own agents; they in fact have no real control over national policy." He finds the situation "pathological." Realistically or not, the more prosperous people questioned in the Harvard survey felt a greater sense of responsibility for their own acts-and thus were...
...Notwithstanding their poorer salaries, on an average, the women reported greater satisfaction in their lives then the men. The housewives, who were earning less money than anyone else, expressed about as much satisfaction as any other group in the sample. There is little here to support the feminist argument that a housewife's life is intolerable, especially for educated, intelligent women. It would be hard to pick a brighter group than the women in this study, yet they seemed to be adjusting easily to their lot. To give but one example of the many striking cases, a woman whose...