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America's central cities, which contain close to 30 percent of all households with incomes under $7000 a year, present the sharpest picture of the continuing persistence of poverty in this country. With close to 60 percent of Black families and over half of all Hispanic families, they pose the greatest challenge in terms of achieving racial equality and opportunity. More than any other part of America, cities raise fundamental questions for this country's future: Whether America's increasingly service-oriented economy can absorb low-killed workers; whether this society can deal with welfare dependency and the growth...
...Sullivan Principles contain no provisions about the arms and military technology provided by the U.S. to the white repressive apparatus that Silvers recommends reasoning with Nor do the Sullivan Principles prevent American corporations from paying three times as much in taxes to the military government than in wages to Black workers. The Sullivan Principles merely contribute to the perpetuation of American support for oppression...
...health care, avoiding any reference to his more radical positions. These include his firm opposition to the House of Lords (he legally renounced his title of Viscount Stansgate in 1963) and Britain's participation in NATO and the European Community. But on one issue Benn was unable to contain himself. Charging that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was planning to "destroy all unions," he condemned the government's decision to ban union membership at the supersecret Government Communications Headquarters at Cheltenham, 99 miles northwest of London, as "a major attack on civil liberties...
...fruitful harmony between science and faith, between church and the world." But arguing that such harmony can in fact exist, the Pope says that the church has now paid a suitable tribute to Galileo by accepting a major contention of the pioneering astronomer: that the Bible does not contain specific scientific truths, but speaks metaphorically about such events as the creation or the movement of the sun. As Galileo said, quoting a churchman of his day, "The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach how to go to heaven and not how go the heavens." That is surely...
Equally good are the sequences in Hillsboro, where the rogues finally go too far in trying to victimize three orphan-sisters, well-played by Karen MacDonald, Marianne Owens, and Nina Bernstein. These scenes also contain the most effective musical number. "You Ought to Be Here With Me"--a song in which the intentional use of AM-radio cliches transcends the genre as it fails to do so in other numbers...