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...Labor, released a study depicting instability in the black family and stressing the problem of the absentee father, he was roundly accused of racism for ignoring the economic basis of the situation. In the heyday of the civil rights movement, admits Jacob, "teenage pregnancy was not the kind of subject we were willing to deal with publicly. We felt the black community would be blamed." That lack of attention was unfortunate, as black leaders now acknowledge. In the years since the Moynihan report, observes Eleanor Holmes Norton, the status of the black family has deteriorated. In 1965, she points...
...user group, which includes New York Times Book Reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt and Pulitzer-Prizewinning Author David Halberstam. But Buckley tries hard not to sound over-zealous. Unlike his friend Halberstam, whom he once described as "impossibly evangelistic," Buckley takes great pains not to be 100% boring on the subject of computers. "I'm about 75% boring," he estimates. Nonetheless, when he is home for dinner with Wife Pat and Son Christopher, 33, talk frequently turns to smart keys and modems. Says Buckley: "My wife has asked me if, some time before she dies, we couldn't have a meal...
...felt bitter after reading the article on artificial-heart recipients [MEDICINE, Dec. 9]. To subject a human to the confines of an artificial life-support system is an unethical and deplorable act of modern medicine. It is time man accepts the fact that as a life form, he is finite, and that the quality of life, not the quantity, is what should be valued. Jeffrey Reese Davis Chattanooga, Tenn...
Curator Clem Conger, who has lovingly guided the White House to new levels of grace and beauty, says the mansion never looked better, nor has there ever been so much interest in its history. There will soon be two new volumes on just that subject, part of the flood tide of material on the presidency...
...epoch of Mommy and Daddy Dearest, this memoir is anomalous: a daughter extravagantly admires her father. Nancy Sinatra is aware of Frank's liabilities--the mercurial temper, the sullen withdrawals, the ring-a-ding-ding philosophy. But as she shows, much of the gossip is myth. The subject admits that if he had been quite the satyr of legend, "I'd be speaking to you today from a jar in the Harvard Medical School." Instead, he speaks through a remarkable series of interviews ("It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone...