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...Jersey towns-a fact that the mayor attributes to East Orange's high percentage of homeowners. It is still a town in search of itself. As one white resident put it: "We haven't had soul here in 20 years." East Orange used to be middle-to upper-class, staunchly Republican, predominantly white: now it is middle-to lower-class, Democratic, predominantly black. Says Mayor Hart: "This town can go up or down. What we need is money, resources. We have the people-good people who will back you when you call them...
Both moves are disastrous. The context is so implausible that one cannot believe in the honesty of the theatrical experience. We are shown a stiff-upper-lip Colonel firmly set in the aristocratic European military tradition-and are asked to accept him as part of upper-class New York social circles. We are asked to believe in a young debtype with scruples about sex and religion. And, after one of the greatest tie-loosening decades in American history, we must also accept her guilt over marrying the man she loves against her mother's wishes...
THERE is no clearer manifestation of the white, male, upper-class, Anglo-Saxon prejudice of Harvard's ruling elite than its open and proudly flaunted prejudice against women in admissions policy. And though it would be difficult to argue that a bright woman forced to go to, say, Vassar instead of Radcliffe is as oppressed as a Laotian peasant woman strafed by the U. S. Air Force, or a black woman or man in this country deprived of any sort of decent education at all, it is clear that a 50-50 admissions policy by next year is a cause...
Settling a Score. In fact, a good many middle-and upper-class Chileans have begun to doubt that claim. Some of Allende's more radical followers have illegally seized some 5,000 houses and apartment units and driven owners off some 750,000 acres of farmland. (The government has legally expropriated nearly 1,800,000 acres.) Allende has asked Congress to pass a law making violent seizures of property a crime punishable by up to three years in prison. But his government has done little or nothing to enforce laws already on the books; in fact, it has ordered...
...noted that if all the Harvard Houses were co-ed now, there would be only 50 women in each House. "And that's not enough," she said. "Meanwhile, the Radcliffe quad would be all freshman women and upper-class...