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When Stanley turned 13, everybody in his corner of The Bronx heard about it - whether they wanted to or not. Why? His father gave him a saxophone. It was a battered, $35 hock-shop special, and Stanley honked away on it for eight hours a day until the tenement reverberated with angry cries. But whenever somebody shouted, "Shut that kid up!" his mother would shout back from the kitchen, "Play louder, Stanley! Play louder...
...person, smart, brave, and true; For if they can make penicillin out of moldy cheese, They surely can make something out of you. This bit of verse was written by Arnie Gant, a 15-year-old Negro who lives in a public-housing project in The Bronx and is one of the thousands of kids whom it has become fashionable for the ex perts to call "culturally deprived." But even while resenting that tag, Arnie sees some humor in everybody's eagerness to "save" him. He wrote his wry lines for fellow members of Columbia University's Project...
...program. The Convent of the Sacred Heart requires its first-graders to study French, memorize such poems as Blake's "Little Lamb, who made thee?", sends its older girls out on social work one afternoon weekly. Fieldston's 660 kids enjoy an 18-acre campus in the Bronx, a curriculum strong in arts, crafts, music and ethics (compulsory every year). Two of the oldest schools in the land, Collegiate (founded in 1638) and Trinity (1709), cling to their traditions of classical schooling, also boast student bodies of high IQ ratings...
...applicants for every pupil who can be admitted, at least a few private schools have been lazily content to teach manners better than math. Some parents whose children have gone to both private and public schools argue that the few good public schools, such as the famed Bronx High School of Science-which are also hard to get into-are as good or better. The real appeal of some private schools, they claim, is parental desire to have their children study ABC's alongside little Rockefellers or Kennedys, and thus put a tiny foot in the door...
...from the more famous Deux Magots-Go). Duke Ellington's new place is called the Mood Indigo-Go, and the squares out in Pasadena are in waltz time at the Long, Long Ago-Go. But the most popular of all is a Jewish discothèque in The Bronx called the Let My People...