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...chansons are about ordinary people who come to sad ends rather than bad ends. In Un Carbon Dansait, a slum-bred youngster dreams of being another Fred Astaire; Montand manages a brilliant satiric evocation of second-rate Astaire-the outflung white-gloved hands (without the gloves), the staccato rhythms tapped out on a walking stick like a hollow third leg, and the agitated centipede footwork interrupted with dazzling toothpasty smiles. The funniest number casts Montand as a feverish symphony conductor who snaps his baton, his Beethoven concert and his career in two to waltz off with a girl who cares...
...improve slum schools, Conant asks...
...More money. "The contrast in money spent per pupil in wealthy suburban and slum schools challenges the concept of equality of opportunity in American public education. The expenditure per pupil in the wealthy suburban school is as high as $1,000 per year. The expenditure in a big-city school is less than half that amount...
...become involved in attempts to correct the consequences of voluntary segregated housing. It would be far better for those who are agitating for the deliberate mixing of children to accept de facto segregated schools as a consequence of a present housing situation and to work for the improvement of slum schools whether Negro or white...
...Children of Sánchez, by Oscar Lewis. A powerful and moving documentary, mostly tape-recorded, in which each of five members of a Mexico City slum family tells of his fight for self-respect and love...