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...aims at getting the "injured," non-working members of the society into the mainstream and earning. Studies show consistently that people neither enjoy being on the welfare rolls nor stay there indefinitely. And those who do not work, such as the aged and disabled (over half the caseload in Cambridge), and mothers with small children, generally cannot work...
...Until the Government appropriates sufficient amounts for welfare [Feb. 8], there will be no way to tell if poverty is a matter of inadequate funds or a matter of life-style and culture. Until the poor are given the opportunity to live and participate in the mainstream of American life, there will be no way to determine whether the poor are inherently lazy and unmotivated or whether a substandard environment and an inferior social position have influenced their actions...
...colleges will have to improve notably in quality. Most of them are separate but unequal: only two schools have Ph.D. programs (Atlanta and Howard universities) and many are little more than teachers' colleges. The commission urged the black colleges to approach both the competition and the standards of "mainstream" schools by expanding the best of their black studies programs and adding courses leading to careers in business, accounting, computers and engineering. "Perhaps ten or twelve" of the smaller colleges, the commission said, should consider relocating or merging with larger institutions. To ease the shortage of black scholars, the Carnegie...
What is most significant about the new direction of the political movement is that it is pursuing its goals within the mainstream of the more general cultural revolution of the young. At the same time that radicals are rebuilding their political structure, they are breaking into small groups, living in communes, "relating to each other"?in short, trying to live their revolution instead of making it. Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation are increasingly active elements in the movement. In a way, the intermingling of cultural and political drives has provided a strength and energy to the movement that...
...look may refer to the West Coast folk culture of hot-rod and chopper, or to aerospace technology; it has little to do with the "mainstream" of art as defined in New York, and some critics find this hard to forgive. "It is apparently as easy," snorted one writer in Art forum recently, "to rack up in Los Angeles as an artist as it is to be a stringer of beads. In California, the idea of luxe, calme et volupté is simplified into prettiness and expensive-lookingness...