Word: transients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Americans reach new heights of affluence and aspiration, slum kids are made to feel all the more worthless by their poverty and the color of their skin. Often, dinner is a hamburger served in a paper bag; books are nonexistent; home is a rooming house so transient that in a recent year 50% of all Manhattan pupils switched schools, making a mockery of sustained education...
...diets, drinks very little, and doesn't smoke at all. Advancing age frightens him. So he seldom stops to think about it, zipping around golf courses or around the world, giving the winged chariot a run for its money. This has made him a transient in his own home. He jokes that the towels in his bathroom say HERS and WELCOME STRANGER. His wife spends most of her time working for Catholic charities. They have four children. The oldest, Anthony, is a student at Harvard Law. Gradually, over the years, whatever there was of the man behind the image...
...children first. His subject matter concentrated on them, their preening, their chance encounters, their intimate moments of tenderness, love and sadness (see color). He sculpted fleeting human gestures as they appeared through sunlight, shade, haze, even gaslight. And he thus became the first sculptor to travel into the transient world of the French impressionist painters-a little-acknowledged fact that is well substantiated in a show of 28 of his works, sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Institute Italiano di Cultura in New York, which opened last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...high schools, and far more than its share of national scholarship winners. But the city is losing students to the suburbs, and hard-to-teach Negro and Puerto Rican children are on the increase-they comprise 76.5% of all elementary school pupils in Manhattan. Such children are often so transient that in some schools teachers get two sets of students between September and June. The city has poured extra cash and supplies into 274 "special service" schools, but none of it goes far enough. A third of all junior high students are at least two years retarded in reading...
...autumn's transient desire...