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...education generally, with emphasis on remedial and preventive programs like Head Start, was designed to help their children. Finally, programs like VISTA aimed at enlisting other Americans in the war. Michael Harrington, whose 1962 book The Other America did much to focus affluent America's attention on its underclass, charges that federal statistics claiming advances amount to no more than the celebration of "paper triumphs." The evidence is with Harrington. While innovative, a number of the programs were excessively costly, poorly administered and subject to failure because of the inability of federal, state and local officials to unite effectively. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Welfare: Trying to End the Nightmare | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...could not, states Williams, relate to the black underclass or understand its impatience with a system that refused to recognize its legitimate demands. Because of this lack of understanding, the angry Williams charges, King did what no black leader can afford to do if he is really to influence white society: he compromised. Says Williams: "Compromises that seem to favor black people have always turned out to be defeats for them. 'Political expediency' is nonexistent for Negroes. The demands made must be stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: Posthumous Pillory | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...racism argument, replied: "Absolutely not, although I realize that there have been instances of discrimination. We have to have someone in office who can understand what it is like to be discriminated against." What this attitude ignores, of course, is that blacks face handicaps not suffered by earlier underclass groups. Further, as long as they remain submerged, most of the city's problems will be insoluble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NEW YORK: THE REVOLT OF THE AVERAGE MAN | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

That is a truth that moderate and liberal leaders must recognize. Even so, it is equally true that the "underclass"-the blacks, the Mexican Americans and others-have even more reason to feel left out. They too are fed uo, with justice delayed and promises deferred-a fact that Cartoonist John Fischetti expressed in a drawing of an anonymous black imitating the President's "up to here" gesture. Yet viewed rationally, the long-range interests (if not the short-term problems) of the two sides coincide. The slums suffer more from crime and disorder than the suburbs, and blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE IDEOLOGY OF FED-UPNESS | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...Harvard hockey team flew out of Troy, N.Y., last night in search of the comeback trail, but got woefully lost, 7-2 to R.P.I. Harvard eventually wound up outshooting the Engineers, 35-31, but the strong squad of underclass Canadians outskated and outscored the Crimson in each period...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Skaters Stay in Slump With 7-2 Loss to RP1 | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

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