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...early '60s were heady days. Camelot, civil rights, new frontiers, war on poverty--and a social cure for mental illness. We would close the mental hospitals, empty the snake pits. Washington would create, ex nihilo, an entirely new system of care, planting mental health centers in every hamlet. New wonder drugs would control patients' symptoms. The community would welcome back its lost souls...
...reason for their nervous joke is that the Plant is owned by the U.S. Government. Federal marshals seized the studio in September after its owner was accused of buying the establishment with money from drug manufacturing. The Plant, which has recorded platinum albums for such artists as Stevie Wonder and Fleet-wood Mac, is considered one of the country's ten best studios and rents for about $1,250 a day. After the bust, the Plant stood padlocked for two months. But since the Government intends eventually to sell the property, officials decided that the studio would be worth more...
...died when he was eleven): "He was overcome with the beauty and sadness of his own singing ... He wasn't going to help her. He was going to cry." In The Trout Stream, a child confronts a man in a wheelchair: "The plaid rug across his knees made me wonder fearfully what the legs could be like underneath. Were they all withered away? Were they like drumsticks when the chicken has been eaten...
With disadvantage creating disadvantage, it is no wonder that teen pregnancy is widely viewed as the very hub of the U.S. poverty cycle. "A lot of the so-called feminization of poverty starts off with teenagers' having babies," says Lucile Dismukes of the Council on Maternal and Infant Health in Atlanta, a state advisory group. "So many can't rise above it to go back to school or get job skills...
...wonder teenage pregnancies have reached epidemic proportions in some ghetto areas. According to Guttmacher statistics, black American teenagers have the highest fertility rate of any teenage population group in the entire world. (Israeli Arabs come in a distant second.) One in four black babies in the U.S. is born to a teen mother, most of them unwed. "In the black community, the phenomenon of teen marriage is almost gone," observes Mark Testa of NORC. "Eventually these girls get married, but it might be years later and not to the father of the child." Young black women under...