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...committee avoided the touchy question of tenure for radical economists, over which past battles in the department have been centered. It sought to outline a moderate, structural way in which Marxian economics could find its way gradually into the department's mainstream...
...convinced that the country is more conservative today-in a responsible, creative sense-than it was five years ago. I am confident that we can elect a man in 1976 who is essentially in the conservative mainstream...
...most of the Portuguese in Cambridge, the plunge from the familiar rural-agricultural life of the Azores into the mainstream of Cambridge's urban and industrial environment has tremendous cultural impact. Faced with the formidable task of staying economically and socially afloat in a new and alien environment, the Portuguese are confronted with an intense ethnic identity crisis...
Earlier generations of Portuguese immigrants sought to resolve the problem of ethnic identity by complete assimilation into the American mainstream. But while assimilation resolved the Portuguese identity crisis, the price paid was ethnic emasculation, as they diluted their national customs and heritage in American currents...
Today the bilingual education program has eased the transition into the mainstream of English education for the Portuguese immigrant children, but there is still a high drop out rate among Cambridge's high-school-age Portuguese, as they quit school to help out their families economically...