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Huxtable is not gentle with the high-rise slum housing long favored by government urban renewal. Beauty and function can reinforce one another, she asserts. "It is a social and urban tragedy that those who recognize the urgency of our human problems see their solution only in terms of the total sacrifice of style...
...Kangaroo show. Three weeks before taping, Moss and his writers develop a script. Theoretically, their ideal viewer is poor and culturally deprived. Actually, the show catches the preschooler almost before his society does. Thus Sesame Street is as popular with the well-to-do as it is with the slum dweller. The kids may spark to the astonishing variety of material, but no sketch is without its preordained aim. A game is played under the academic umbrella of "Environment and Multiple Classification." Jet-plane and subway sound effects are listed under "Auditory Discrimination." Big Bird settling an argument is designated...
...oldest member of Congress and for three decades the most influential black in Chicago politics; of pneumonia; in Chicago. First elected city alderman as a Republican in 1933, Dawson switched parties in 1939 and three years later was voted to the first of 14 terms representing the South Side slum wards. The first black committee chairman (Government Operations), he actively opposed the poll tax and fought vigorously for integration of the armed forces. In recent years, younger and more militant blacks had labeled Dawson an Uncle Tom for his close alliance with Mayor Richard Daley...
Social comment was never far from Guston's figurative work: his 1946 Night Children may be caught in a dream, but they live in a slum. The new paintings attack more broadly. His Klansmen are not to be taken as images of a specific present threat (who now takes the Klan as a real political force?) but as generalized symbols of inhumanity. The cunning childishness of Guston's style accords with a game his paintings play -the reduction of the elements of evil to their simplest form, like building blocks...
Ultimately, Bowker hopes to attack poor education at its roots: the public schools. He thinks that the open-admissions policy is already encouraging more slum kids to try for college and refuse to settle for general diplomas. Even under C.U.N.Y.'s new policy, those entering four-year colleges must either have earned an 80% average or rank in the top half of their school classes. Bowker is also mindful that C.U.N.Y. supplies 60% of the city's schoolteachers and reasons that his new minority students will eventually raise the schools' low ratio (11%) of minority teachers. Moreover...