Word: summered
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Hirsch did not set out to produce an entertainment. But this summer, readers seem eager for masochistic diversions. Another finger-wagging polemic about American education, Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, has been on the New York Times best-seller list for eleven weeks. Cultural Literacy is equally cranky, and it has already made best-seller lists in New York City, Dallas, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Boston...
...John Updike? Leonardo but not Michelangelo? Venereal disease but not AIDS? Why Beverly Hills but not St. Louis? Cole Porter but not Leonard Bernstein? Muammar Gaddafi but not Francois Mitterrand? Bogart but not Olivier or even Cagney? Such questions guarantee that the book will indeed spur discussions all summer long, but perhaps not the ones the author intended...
Disneyland has sent "presentation teams" to Los Angeles-area schools to tout the advantages of summer jobs at the giant amusement park. The teams have plenty to offer: wages of $4.25 an hour or more, well above the $3.35 minimum wage; free entry to the park during non-working hours; the right to request or occasionally refuse specific shifts. And any employee who refers another gets to enter a monthly raffle for a free TV set. Even so, as of last week 200 of Disneyland's 2,000 or so summer jobs were still unfilled...
Across the continent in Hyannis, Mass., Denny's Restaurant closed before the start of what should have been its peak season. It needed at least 70 employees to serve the summer crowds flocking to Cape Cod, but was able to hire only 13. A nearby Stop & Shop Supermarket found six cashiers only by recruiting in New Bedford, Mass., 40 miles away. The store will send a van to pick up the six every morning and drive them back at night, and the company will pay the employees time and a half for their two hours of daily travel...
...fewer such youths than there used to be. The number of people ages 16 to 24 dropped from 37 million in 1980 to 34 million in 1986. While the economy has grown at a 3% rate since July 1986, the number of young people in the summer labor force has stayed the same: about 26 million. Says Louis Masotti, a political scientist at Northwestern University: "What we have is a burgeoning service economy that has walked right into the face of a declining demography...