Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the three years of the Lindsay administration, welfare rolls have risen by 40%, to a point where almost 1,000,000 people (1 out of 8 New Yorkers) are on relief. Some city officials would accept Richard Nixon's argument that welfare payments across the country should be standardized...
...such comic relief is overwhelmed by the savage purity of Kosinski's vision -that of a man stripped of all humane conventions and in complete control of his impulses and appetites. In fact, the protagonist's obsession with control becomes indistinguishable from the book itself. Every word is weighted to produce the precise tension that each episode calls for. The effect is hypnotic but short-lived. For unlike The Painted Bird, this novel lacks the grounding situation, the structure and the connective tissue that could have made it more than a rather abstract expression of a pathological state...
...stage is empty, in semidarkness. Suddenly, in a huggermugger of stumbling hurry and shouted directions, a family spills out of a stairwell, dropping luggage and household possessions all over the room, and collapsing in relief. Obviously a close thing, whatever it was. The lights come up as they freeze - father, mother, daughter and Negro maid-while into the tawdry room and out through the theater comes a dreadful ululation of voices...
...find the film's simple attitude towards its characters and their simple attitude towards each other a relief--or pitiful unrealism. Your reaction depends blatantly on the romance in your soul. Are you willing to submerge your modern psychological self-consciousness and accept that love can be that strong...
...free university depends upon the entire community's active rejection of disruptive demonstrations." But, in an interview as well as in the report, Cox warned that this should be taken together with the idea that the institution must be organized "in ways that produce both loyalty and the relief of grievances." These ideals, of course, are extremely difficult to argue with, but aside from a few hints (such as "ways must be found, beginning now, by which students can meaningfully influence the education afforded them and other aspects of the university activities") the Cox Report gives only vague indications...