Word: suffering
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French universities suffer from vast overcrowding (4,000 seats in the Sorbonne library for 40,000 students), a shortage of professors, medieval teaching methods, and harsh examinations designed to weed out students wholesale. On top of that, students bemoan antiquated curriculums. Most resented of all is France's grotesquely centralized educational bureaucracy. Last week, most major French universities or departments followed the lead of the University of Strasbourg and simply decided to secede from the system, declaring themselves autonomous...
...white racism and other injustices." Another group of city officials, said Dr. Spiegel, act as if they understand the problem, speak expansively about the steps they are taking, but in reality do little or nothing constructive. Spiegel calls this "the Jerry Cavanagh Phenomenon." Detroit, where Cavanagh is mayor, suffered the nation's most destructive riots last summer despite a race-relations program considered effective by the city's government. "We are more willing to settle for violence than to change the social attitudes underlying it," says Spiegel, "just as many people are willing to suffer neuroses rather than...
...with a disservice. The care given the poor today at City, while decent, is not adequate. There is no need for a full staff at City anymore, and the result has been that some parts of it are hardly staffed at all. The few patients who must go there suffer...
...REPORTS: HUNGER IN AMERICA (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Correspondents David Culhane and Charles Kuralt conduct a study of the 10 million Americans who suffer from severe malnutrition, and of the successes and failures of Government programs to help them...
Whatever the solution, the poor need no longer suffer the extremes of actual hunger and physical debilitation. By guaranteeing a minimum income to every one of its citizens, a society as affluent as today's America can afford not only to keep its economic cripples well housed, well fed?and well?but also to provide them with the crucial increment of dignity that is denied by penury...