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Writes Brandeis' Sociologist Philip Slater, in The Pursuit of Loneliness: "It is ironic that young people who try to form communes almost always create the same narrow, age-graded, class-homogeneous society in which they were formed. A community that does not have old people and children, white-collar and blue-collar, eccentric and conventional, and so on, is not a community at all, but the same kind of truncated and deformed monstrosity that most people inhabit today...
...especially true today. The U.S., long the melting pot of a dozen national cuisines, shows signs of becoming stratified along culinary as well as philosophical and political lines. The blacks are proudly eating soul foods, the hardhats feast on as much red meat as they can afford, and the white-collar liberals seem to be keeping down their cholesterol with chicken and veal. The youth of Woodstock Nation? With almost religious zeal, they are becoming vegetarians. They are also in the vanguard of the flourishing organic-food movement, insisting on produce grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides...
...contrast, the mostly white construction industry is in a deep slump, outside of a few cities. Unemployment among hardhats in September reached 13.8%, the highest since 1963. White-collar workers constitute another group no longer immune to layoffs. Though the unemployment rate among them is only 2.8%, the number of jobless white-collar workers has jumped in the past year from 932,000 to 1,258,000. Unemployment has also been rising fast among workers in farming, lumber, machinery, and-even before the strike -the auto industry...
...television ads, which get most of his campaign money, do, however, reflect an appeal for an end to lawlessness, including white-collar crime. In one he declares: "In New York State tonight, 14-year-old children are going to shoot heroin into their veins . . . some men are going to come home from work, their lungs poisoned by chemicals . . . people are going to sit down and write out checks for padded bills. All of these things are against...
...past decade, the median age of men in the auto plants has declined from 41 to 37; more than one-third of the strikers are under 25. The youngsters insist on big gains-now. A common refrain among union leaders is voiced by Leonard Paula, who represents 4,700 white-collar workers in U.A.W. Local 112 at Chrysler: "I try to tell the young guys that they have to wait for some things, but they come up with their beards and mop heads and say, 'Hey, mother, you're ancient.' They do not even listen...