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...seems designed to make the isolation of the presidency a bit more splendid than it ought to be. Perhaps in the interests of sheer humility a constitutional amendment should require that a President spend at least a few weekends a year in a trailer camp or a slum, or sleeping on a relative's Hide-a-Bed in East Lansing...
Married. Christy Brown, 40, Irish novelist, poet and painter who, although almost totally paralyzed since birth by cerebral palsy, wrote a bestselling autobiographical book about family life in a Dublin slum (Down All the Days), typing the manuscript with the toes of his left foot; and Mary Carr, 27, dental receptionist; he for the first time, she for the second; in Dublin...
Then he and the Bliss crew spent another month in Chicago's working-class and slum wards, laboriously checking out names and addresses. They reported finding more than 1,000 cases of election-law violations, mostly forgery: people whose "signatures" appeared on ballot applications but who had not voted. There were also instances of phony addresses (one "residence" proved to be a police station, another the middle of a busy intersection). Some "voters" had died or moved away long before the primary. These and other irregularities were found in 22 of Chicago's 50 wards...
Except for two years as a writer for the New Republic, Jencks has spent his career as an activist scholar. At Washington's Institute for Policy Studies in 1965, he helped devise what in watered-down form became the Teacher Corps, which recruits and trains teachers for slum schools. Soon afterward, he collaborated with Sociologist David Riesman on The Academic Revolution, which accused research-oriented American universities of smothering diversity in education. Out of one chapter of that book grew the questions that led to Inequality. While writing Inequality, Jencks also found time to develop for the Office...
...prominently an attempted bank robbery staged with deadly precision, and fine performances by Scott and Keach, much more effective here than in Fat City. Smaller roles have been cast with a fine eye for character detail. Clifton James as a gruff old police pro, Stefan Gierasch as an indignant slum landlord, and the ravishing Rosalind Cash as Keach's black girl friend are especially memorable. Jane Alexander portrays Keach's wife, however, as if she were a prune intended for medicinal use only, and Scott Wilson's rookie cop is totally consumed by actor's hysteria...