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...week to tutoring about 3,500 Negro youngsters in cities all over the Northeast. Results have been undramatically good. In Philadelphia, a survey of 240 kids showed 50% of them doing "a little better" in school and 41% doing "much better." In Hartford, Conn., 13-year-old Pearley-Mae Sampson has hiked her average from C to B under the guidance of Trinity College Senior Henry Whitney, 21. In Harlem, Tutor Carl Anthony took a seventh-grader with third-grade reading ability and in two weeks helped her to get 90 on a seventh-grade spelling test. Step by step...
...ugly beard which just horizontally from his chin, a tottering gait, and a bottomless stock of half-completed, fluttering and totally impotent hand gestures. To which is added an unpredictable voice that shouts its superstitions in a surprising variety of registers. Mr. Abbott, actor, director, and critic, is Sir Sampson Legend, Valentino's Squire Western of a father. Occasionally he seems to slip from gruffness into his accustomed wearied and mannered style, but for the most part his Legend is every bit the landed Tory blockhead...
...single Establishment but a ring of Establishments." By contrast with the Victorians, Britain's present-day Pooh-Bahs do not aspire to know "what is best for the people," or conspire to run the country, from whose overall interests they are increasingly insulated. "This." argues Sampson "surely is the greater nightmare of a democracy-not that the government is full of sinister and all-powerful eminences grises, but that the will of the people dissolves in committees, with thousands of men muttering about their duty to 'those whom we serve...
British Journalist Anthony Sampson returned home in 1955 after four years in not-so-dark Africa and soon became convinced that the Establishment was to blame for his country's slow, erratic reactions to its new place in the postwar world. He set forth on a close, hardheaded examination of what he calls "the legs, arms, main bloodstream and metabolism" of the traditions and institutions that collectively control the life of Britain...
...between the elite undergraduates of quasi-aristocratic Oxbridge and the more numerous plebeians who attend the provincial redbrick universities is such, in the words of Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders. former director of the London School of Economics, that "four-fifths of our undergraduates feel inferior for life." This snobbishness Sampson wryly labels the Pox Britannica...