Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national headquarters, the program employs only two staffers and several secretaries. There are four staffers in Kansas City and two in Los Angeles, where EXCEL faces extinction as a result of Proposition 13. Many black community leaders feel that Jackson is making things too easy for whites by putting unfair responsibility on the deprived for their deprivation. Jackson's response: "Slave masters never freely give up their power. The slaves have to rise up and cast off their oppressors." In fact, when asked a question Jackson nearly always responds with a well-rehearsed slogan or a ministerial platitude. Debate...
...senior study director at the National Opinion Research Center and soon-to-be sociology professor at the University of Arizona, is best known for books, columns and articles that people read simply because they are readable. On practically any topic, Greeley manages to strike some readers as outrageously unfair and others as eminently fair, as left wing and right wing, as wise and wrongheaded. More often than not, he is stunningly on target. Greeley's latest confection is Everything You Wanted to Know About the Catholic Church but Were Too Pious to Ask (Thomas More Press, $7.95). Greeley simply...
...raging, frustrated father. At times Ellsworth seems a bit stiff--his two major rages are almost identical in gesture and intonation--but on the whole, and particularly in the final scene, he is the focal point of the production. Belle McDonald quietly excels as the dominated, insistent and wholly unfair wife, a woman who gains no satisfaction from her marriage and constantly looks back to her happier days as a single girl in a devoted family...
...course, it is probably unfair to apply very high standards to a book that, after all, pretends to be nothing more than entertainment. Breslin is a marvelously gifted writer, no matter what his topic; a tough, grown-up Irish-American punk, he has a street-corner sense of humor and a sharp ear for dialogue, and his characterizations of middle-class New Yorkers seem to have stepped straight out of the subway. Even in dubious collaboration with Schaap--a sportswriter whose previous literary accomplishments, if that is the work for them, include a bunch of as-told-to locker-room...
...many Americans, welfare payments are synonymous with HEW and its problems. Today the main components of federal welfare?Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid, food stamps and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)?distribute more than $30 billion to some 30 million Americans. The vast program is unfair and inefficient. Benefits vary widely across the country, in part because the states share the cost of the program, and their contributions differ dramatically. A family of four in Mississippi, for instance, receives $60 a month; in New York, it would get $450. Fathers are encouraged to desert, since AFDC payments...