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...much sounder approach would be to provide federal encouragement and money for training programs run by private business. One good model is the string of Opportunities Industrialization Centers started by the Rev. Leon Sullivan in Philadelphia and now operating in 137 communities. OIC first gives the hard-core unemployed brush-up courses in English, math, dress and deportment, then trains them for specific jobs (welding, typing, data processing), many of which, local businessmen report, are actually there waiting to be filled. In 14 years, says Sullivan, OIC has graduated 400,000 trainees and placed 300,000 of them in jobs...
Jimmy Carter is writing his chapter. Not being eloquent, robust or profane, Carter is making his critical mark by sheer scope. Within the past few days he has given Russian President Brezhnev the brush-off over the neutron bomb, thumped his own civil service for administrative horrors, thundered against lawyers for greed, attacked bureaucrats again, this time for being bureaucrats, accused the Russians of racism and assaulted doctors for associating too closely and raising prices. In his first months, too, Carter and his people potted away at such inviting targets as the oil-and-gas industry, tax-deductible-martini drinkers...
...strangeness wear off, many people spot their own teaching flaws and come up with ideas to correct them, Krupnick says. Teachers who change their style often immediately evoke favorable reactions in their students, or receive better ratings on student questionnaires. One teacher who came to the center to brush up on his lecture style before accepting a prestigious teaching post at another university received substantial criticism from evaluators of one of his taped lectures. Nevertheless, he decided not to make any changes in his technique, and soon after he began his new job students dropped out of his course...
...also predicated their images on the moment, none of them was able to go so far in the direction of displaying reality as a collection of tiny, discrete stillnesses. Monet constructed a unified light, meaning and mood out of an accumulation of specific fragments, each the size of a brush mark. The unitary truth emerges from an infinity of facets...
...offers no psychological insight into what makes a Hoffa, and no historical insight into how the American labor movement so quickly deteriorated into self-serving materialism. That is perhaps excusable; what can you expect from people who not only were not present at the creation, but also never brush up against the modern working man except when they take their Mercedes in for repair...