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...cattle but not, alas, bull snakes (Brown killed three of them earlier this year). At Lennep, science lab may be watching Alka-Seltzer tablets dissolve at varying speeds in glasses of cold, warm and hot water. Socially, too, youngsters nurtured in the gentle intimacy of a one roomer may tend at first to be loners, and lonely, when tossed into a big high school...
Francis' history thus unfolds from the leisurely perspective of eternity, with frequent interruptions from the two immortals guiding the tour. Given this long view, episodes tend to cluster into something resembling a preordained pattern. Born in a backwater village in eastern Canada, Francis had his maternal grandfather to thank for his lifelong freedom from money worries. He owes his mixed Protestant and Roman Catholic training to the strictures of his British father, whose family has been Church of England "since Reformation times," and the meddling of an aunt who gives him holy pictures and sees that a priest baptizes...
...pregnancy, as black leaders are quick to point out, should not be seen as a specifically black problem. Rather, says Jacob, it is a poverty-related problem. "It has a greater impact on the black community because it is a poor community." Indeed, poor whites as well as blacks tend to have high rates of teenage pregnancy. In the largely white community of North Adams, Mass., an old mill town where unemployment has been high, teen pregnancy is reaching epidemic levels. One out of five births at North Adams Regional Hospital is to an adolescent, and 90% of the young...
...youth. "It's attempting in a perverse sense to get some security and nurturing needs met . . . It's like when kids get puppies." Finally, there is little social pressure to persuade them to postpone childbearing, notes Joy Dryfoos, who has conducted research for the Rockefeller Foundation. Middle-class girls tend not to have babies, she says, "because Mother would kill them if they did." For the lower socioeconomic groups, she says, "it's the big shoulder shrug. They don't get abortions. They don't use contraception. It's just not that important; they don't have a sense...
Modernist furniture is another matter entirely: the stripped-down, functional aesthetic is alive and well. Particularly when it comes to chairs, the charms of rococo revivalism and campy cha-cha shapes tend to pall quickly. Enzo Mari's lithe Tonietta chair is subtle as can be. What could have been another exercise in thoughtless angularity is redeemed by the slight, supple art nouveau curvature of the aluminum legs and the natural give of the leather seat and back...