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...work which young men can believe in and give themselves to. The victims of this system are the juvenile criminals, whom official culture refuses to take seriously as human beings, but also the young organization men who, though lost in self- contempt, are afraid to leave what they call rat race...
...risk, says Goodman, a young man needs faith. He must be able to work hard, to lose himself in his work because the community supports him. But this sort of faith (in vocation) is today rare, and most teenagers become either "early-resigned" (those who, though qualified for the rat race, balk at submitting to it) or "early-fatalistic" (those who, underprivileged, never get a chance to get into the rat race...
...short on toys, he can no longer make the claim, has filled his rented home in West Hollywood's hills with 14 radios, four TV sets and two hi-fi sets that blare until 4 a.m., wearing out his Stan Kenton and Dave Brubeck records. The unshaven campus rat looking for work has become a hard-working future millionaire in need of a shave: he attacks himself twice a day with one of eleven electric razors. Standing 5 ft. 10 in., weighing 150 lbs., he eats little, smokes seldom, drinks ''only with chicks." On his wrist...
Cows & Calories. After ten years' incessant government educational work, religious and social resistance to rural advance has been reduced. Though Parbhu Dayal, for example, is a good Brahman who would never knowingly take the life of any animal, he welcomes government agents who arrive to poison rats and to spray insecticides in his fields. Another Punjabi farmer, Kartar Singh, 26, grudgingly admitted that his brother from New Delhi had added 20% to last year's wheat harvest by spreading rat poison around the farm during one of his visits...
...Long Row to Hoe makes no mawkish attempt to glorify poverty, but it is crammed with woods lore and river-rat doings that Billy might well have missed had his family been prosperous ; after all, few of the more sheltered boys got to know Mountain Mouse, the Hogarthian local whore. With a passionate hunger for education, Author Clark eventually made it to the University of Kentucky, is now a freelance writer. Far from trying to forget his boyhood miseries, he has dignified them through grit and awareness of the natural beauty around...