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...Socialist Workers' support seemingly picks up where the Communists' constituency shades off as one ascends the hierarchical ladder of Spanish society. The PSOE, led by a young labor lawyer, Felipe Gonzalez, draws its support mainly from the professional strata which grew substantially during the nation's rapid economic growth in the '60's. The party is ideologically aligned with the Southern European tier of social democracy. These parties support a more worker-control style of the socialism than the British, West German, or Swedish socialist parties, and favor tactical coalitions with the Communists...
More difficult to accept is their contention that the success of an ethnic group depends on its "socially established values," that groups end up at the bottom of the social ladder because their beliefs and attitudes are different from those of the leaders of society. The groups whose norms best approximate "normal" values reap the rewards; others suffer the punishments. So, if Chicanos happen to get put in the fields all the time, it must be because they perceive the world differently from the Gallo brothers. In a way it is their own fault for thinking like that. If this...
When Smith describes the hellish hook and ladder chores, he writes with passionate familiarity. But his political drama is little more than a series of over drawn editorial cartoons. The Governor is a gross Manhattan Machiavelli, and the mayor speaks to confidential aides as if he were on Face the Nation: "I am sure you need not be reminded of the hard days we shared in the nearly three years of my administration...
...tighten, Americans tend to hire Americans." Kim finally landed a last-minute appointment at Simmons, but he is, like Hesford, a victim of what McKinney calls the "the revolving door" syndrome. In a year, he will be on the market again, trying to gain a foothold on the academic ladder to tenure. Nevertheless, Kim has no desire to switch careers. "At this point, I've invested so much time and energy in my field, I don't think I would change," he says. "I don't have high materialistic ambitions--just so long as my wife and I are surviving...
...contemporary sense of times awry goes deeper than economics. Potomac Associates, a research organization, measures something it calls the "ladder of life"; in its most recent test, reported in December, Americans on the average thought themselves better off now than they were five years ago and expected to be personally still better off in the future. Yet these same Americans expressed a sharp decline in confidence in their country's future. Political studies show that in every election since 1958, the "most politically estranged" voters have been those over 50; the world simply became loo much for them. Surprisingly...