Word: tape
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...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. Anthropologist Lewis' tape-recorded view of Mexican poverty, gathered at its roots in The Children of Sanchez, cut considerably more deeply than most sociology goes. This time the compelling scene is poverty among the Puerto Ricans, and it is unrelievedly ugly...
...evident in the paucity of results. In Watts, the high-tension Negro section of Los Angeles that erupted in fierce rioting a year and a half ago, measurable progress is almost impossible to discern. Local officials have done almost nothing, and the federal program has bogged down in red tape. Although there are job-training classes in Watts, the dropout rate is almost 50%. Small wonder. The curriculum, which includes such subjects as termite control and motorcycle repair, scarcely seems tailored to the Watts job market. Last summer, when it was feared that Watts would erupt again, federal officials earmarked...
...case. After that, he was hired by the four suspects in U.S. history's biggest cash heist, the $1,551,277 Plymouth, Mass., mail robbery.* After one suspect had agreed to help postal inspectors bug the other suspects' phones, Bailey got the tipster to agree to tape-record his bugging conversations with the inspectors, who have not yet been able to get an indictment...
Advanced nations tend to rely more and more on activist government to enlarge their citizens' wellbeing. But the more government does for people the bigger government gets-and the smaller citizens feel. What champion can fight city hall, slash red tape and rescue the Little Guy from the insolence of Big Bureaucracy...
Only a sociologist, perhaps, is equipped to digest the mountains of raw data that Lewis' technique produces, to assay the yards of tape, the stenographic interviews, the conscientious catalogues of someone's wardrobe, someone else's orange-crate kitchen shelf. In a foreword, Lewis makes an effort to summarize, for non-sociologists, the book's message. In most ways, this summary is more successful and more illuminating than the ensuing panorama of unbridled...