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...residential area that lies adjacent to the Harvard Medical School complex in the north end of Roxbury is an inner-city neighborhood that works. The working-class Irish Catholic families who have lived there for decades co-exist peacefully with more recently arrived black and Spanish-speaking residents. Comfortable wooden houses with stained-glass windows line the quiet streets, where children play in safety. Their grandmothers watch over them while their parents are at work. It is a community in the true sense of the word, and a neighborhood group called Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (RTH) has been working four...
...their great work school teachers--I always associate teachers with doctors as professionals with great responsibility--many times teachers will see a child who does not assimilate, who does not understand, who does not learn, who does not remember. It is not because that child does not want to learn or study: it is because he grew up in disadvantaged conditions and that is the result of a social system; because, tragically, even the development of the mind is touched by the ingestion of food, fundamentally touched during the first eight months of life. Working-class mothers are not able...
...article on credit discrimination against married women [June 4] and the question, "What if she becomes pregnant?": as long as we live in an inflated economy, the imperative for a working-class woman to be employed outside the home will increase with each child that must be fed, clothed, educated and taken to the orthodontist. I can only hope for retirement after the last quarter's college tuition is paid for my youngest child. Leaving the work force was a luxury I could afford only before I became a mother...
Welfare should be viewed as a racial issue because people commonly believe that most welfare clients are black freeloaders. It is not uncommon while campaigning in white working-class neighborhoods to hear people complaining about how hard they work to eke out an existence and about how people on welfare (blacks) get to live in hotels...
Different as they are, Brezhnev and Nixon could admire their mutual skill at political maneuver and their long, hard way up to power. Brezhnev's triumph springs from a mixture of perseverance, hard work and calculation -plus an ample measure of good luck. The child of Russian working-class parents, he was born in the Ukrainian town now known as Dnieprodzerzhinsk. He had the right proletarian qualifications for Soviet success, but his early career was not singularly promising. After graduating from a trade school in Kursk, he held a series of unspectacular jobs: land surveyor, factory worker, school director...