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Jensen maintained in his article that compensatory education had failed and that this failure could be due to an inherent intellectual disadvantage of members of lower income strata and minority groups. The article was published in the Harvard Educational Review...
Jewett said Friday that the middle-class students who can no longer afford to come to Harvard are being replaced by students from upper economic strata "who don't seem to worry about paying $6000 a year to attend Harvard...
AUCHINCLOSS APPEARS to harbor an ambition to be a modern-day Edith Wharton, chronicling the life of an East Coast Establishment. He fails on two accounts. He does not hate his culture enough. Perhaps he is passionately involved with his New York strata, but the passion (love/hate) does not come through in his writing in the same way that it does in Wharton's novels of that world. And the society itself has changed, disintegrated, lost its potency; it is no longer so hateable or lovable...
...statistics have been more purely behavioral. One study compared the situation of 458 illegitimate children who had been raised by their mothers with that of 182 illegitimate children who had been adopted and 15,563 legitimate children. Although all three groups were from the same social and economic strata, by the age of seven the illegitimate children who had remained with their mothers were already at a distinct disadvantage. The mothers had begun to move socially downward, and the children's behavior and school work were deteriorating...
...unregal Chancellor. He freely mingles with the public without a bodyguard, writes innumerable thank-you notes, and waits his turn in line for the ski lift when on vacation. He also hobnobs with Vienna's most brilliant intellectuals and artists. The ease with which he mixes with all strata of Austrians has made him his country's most popular postwar Chancellor, so much so that a Kreisky-souvenir industry has blossomed-complete with Kreisky piggy banks, T shirts and clothes hangers. A bestseller is a wall poster depicting the Chancellor in a superman costume leaping over all sorts...