Hero of the year

...Twenty-five years ago the University and McCarthy...

...Otherwise politicians Adlai Stevenson (1963), for his service at the United give way to a clergyman (Rev...

...The face is finely drawn...

...And with the exception of Kunstler and Berwas the choice for the first year of the new decade, a rigan there is not a name on the list that the American significant move for the seniors since that was an elec- establishment of the past 25 years would not be comtion year...

...I SHOW ME a hero," wrote Fitzgerald, "and I Daniel Berrigan...

...Edgar Hoover...

...Not as a result of busing black youngsters to these areas...

...The Cold War and anti-Communism were Interesting, nonetheless, is the total absence from a the threads tying this diverse group together...

...Both of these draw conclusions...

...Richard M. Nixon minority...

...while white children learn at their accustomed rate...

...Everett Dirksen and Gen...

...rector of Pupil Assessment indicated that the most important the variables are the same, they certainly indicate that black results after integration were displayed in elementary classes youngsters do better in integrated schools where the services where students have been integrated in classes for all or are better, the classes smaller and the students are motivated...

...selection of Sen...

...But at the same time that sensitivity becomes so acute, sensibility is reduced to 28 September 1979: 531...

...But these reductions were less than the population re- proposes moving 114,000 children, both black and white, on duction (25 percent) in schools in outlying areas where there a pairing and clustering basis which divides Chicago into had been no such introduction of black children...

...1957-would be the opposing candidate was, of The list in the late 1970s shows our growing disillucourse, not clear in the spring...

...This is the view of Vernon Jordan and James of-Didion's own catch phrase for it-the "flash cut...

...Similarly, an order that children in white families in much over the 15-20 percent, there would not be white flight...

...Yet the coeducational/liberal arts expression on Ms...

...One of the "Sojourns" Didion recounts, in the section of The White between the Finger Lakes Album which bears that one-word title, is "In Bed," with a and the Adirondacks migraine...

...Curtis LeMay (1956), American Catholics...

...Eugene McCarthy (1969) and Allard Low- (John P. Ros.si leaches history at LaSalle College in enstein (1970), leader of the "Dump Johnson" move- Philadelphia...

...The title "White Album" puts it perfectly...

...Didion is a native of southern California Omaha and Corpus Christi, with smaller minority populations who has written screenplays as well as fiction and journalism, or where such imbalances have not yet been perpetuated, so Hollywood is home turf for her...

...In fact, in Hyde pushing for an overall integration of schools at a higher ratio Park, Lincoln Park and several of the other areas with sizable of the population than can be achieved, or even threatened, proportions of black residents, as well as black students in the without causing mass exodus...

...It is uncanny, it seems almost super-human, efforts are clearly essential if we are to provide equal educa- the extent to which, as the last sentence of "The White Altional opportunity for black children...

...percentage to 15 or 20 percent black, there would be a place for 3-4000 more black students...

...John has indicated, while the research in whether such integration, through busing, causes white these studies (as in ours) does not "scientifically" establish flight...

...quarter century of heroes of women or members of any The trend continues into the '60s...

...only 2800 black children were placed in white schools...

...munity to community and from time to time...

...and, as a matter of practice, acceptance of black youngsters in white schools Gone is increasing daily...

...13214 aware of every ripple in your environment...

...second, the bullheadedness of federal officials in the schools' long records of good service...

...Maybe the gesture progress in integration, HEW has not been altogether wrong in Translated to: Look, old one, how, though fragile, pressing them to do more...

...The sheer force of one's perceptions makes each of them dren in black schools...

...there was no increase white would have 50 percent or less white youngsters...

...Thereafter in the 1950s the symbolized a certain pride in the accomplishment of award went to people like Gen...

...there was a long way to go...

...William Ruckelshaus (1974) (1961) and Bob Hope (1962) follow, but then the cho- and Richard Lugar (1978) are there, both no doubt as sen Patriots break out of the anti-Communist mold and Hossier favorite sons, but in Ruckelshaus's case also as begin to mirror the optimism of Camelot...

...There percent black youngsters, such a suggestion, let alone its has been about a 20 percent reduction of population in these execution, can cause an immediate exodus of many of the schools over the years, owing to families leaving the area or remaining white families...

...schools, property values have increased...

...28 September 1979: 529 tion of black children into an all-white community school achievement of black children: first, the general laggardness through busing causes uneasiness...

...One could find The sudden, sharp rejection of America's involvemore than a hint of a quarter century of ment in Vietnam is perfectly mirrored in the selection, American tragedy-and American comedy-in at least within two years, of men as different as Westmoreland one list of heroes...

...the suburbs, or outlying areas of the city, must be integrated That, in fact, is precisely the opinion of many of the local into the largely black city schools-as distinguished from principals...

...Louis, image it summons up for us is a non-image, an image of a Detroit and many others, school segregation has been permit- blank book...

...Periodical literature and news media abound with arthat black children do better in integrated schools where all guments on both sides...

...If these schools were to increase their racial I read the little cobweb-covered message...

...In the 1950s the class presented an award to an outstanding American...

...Within the month, roughly such a placing children in private schools, or to the declining birth suggestion has indeed been made: an HEW feasibility study rate...

...for a first-class education Screen in the Jesuit tradition COPPOLA NOW THE BUSINESS OF MOVIES IS BUSINESS...

...winners all reflected the values typical of a Midwestern Initially the Notre Dame seniors designated their choice Catholic university: they were generally politically as Patriot of the Year, the first Patriot being-who conservative or, as in the case of the two Kennedys, else?-J...

...nearly all of their schooling...

...The inner-city schools generally...

...The together too many cities, like Chicago, Cleveland, St...

...busing black students to these areas-would cause an even There are two alternate obstacles to improved educational more rapid exodus...

...According to the princi- of many educational bureaucracies to accelerate desegregapals we interviewed, in few, if any, of the forty schools did tion, even when it is possible, out of fear of upsetting local this uneasiness cause rapid withdrawal from the schools or applecarts and accelerating white middle class flight from neighborhood...

...Undoubtedly this stability was partially due to urbaq areas...

...Her piece on Hollywood is busing is particularly appropriate, along with better placement a vivid, insider's account of the way motion-picture executives of newly built schools and a better districting of pupils, with live and operate today...

...They are all disconnected from one another...

...the selections A dramatic shift takes place in 1968, however...

...There seems to be a "tipping point" of schools (as well as of housing) beyond which some people will start to move...

...Le Moyne 0 N THE BACK of Joan Didion's The White Album is a photograph of the authoress looking as if she has a College migraine headache...

...That John F. Kennedy, an earlier choice- fortable with...

...In 1971 and 1972 this trend culminated in the naming of radical lawyer William Kunstjer and Fr...

...The eyes small classes/prestigious faculty stare in an intense but unfocused way...

...Didion were a very expensive thoroughbred who knows its own worth and suddenly sniffs smoke in the stable...

...The title piece in The White Album, number of black youngsters that can be integrated without which gets a section all to itself, the opening section, sets the causing resegregation is limited, there must be constant pres- mood for the whole book...

...The victim of a migraine is incredibly sensitive to every stimulus...

...The writing style is very much that wide basis...

...Only in the last two years was any Open your window so that I may sing you large-scale attempt at integration made, and in these two years One brief intrepid aria...

...A ray of sunlight falls across the eyes with the heaviness of a metal tool dropped onto a concrete surface...

...Box 100-N, Le Moyne College Every sensation jumps to the level of pain...

...Gardner, in fact, was the last of the "Patriots...

...If a more massive attempt is made, resegregation Commonweal: 530 will take place, leaving an even larger number of black chil- nil...

...Consequently, if a city like Chicago has an overall average According to most of the principals, schools in the north- of 45 percent black children in its schools, and only 30 perwest area of Chicago, Belmont-Cragin, Montclare, Dunning, cent white children, and the federal government mandates Portage Park and Irving Park, showed no evidence of white that each and every white school must take in, say, exactly 45 flight resulting from the introduction of black students...

...Moreover seven zones, done in such a way that while some all-black the 20 percent drop of student populations in the northwest schools would still exist, all schools now predominantly schools was a longtime phenomenon...

...First that while the Built in this viney place outside her window Chicago schools, like many other schools, have made An undistinguished nest...

...political stability or other values, but so that integration itself will work...

...The piece is a series of fifteen, sure both for improvement in inner-city, predominantly black numbered observations Didion has made on her life and times schools and for integration on a metropolitan rather than city- over a period of ten years...

...Robert Griffin, 1973), a Nations, John Glenn (1964), for his achievement in football coach (Ara Parseghian, 1975), an athlete and space, and Sargent Shriver (1965), for his leadership of wounded Vietnam vet (Rocky Bleier, 1976), and a carthe Peace Corps and War on Poverty, dominate the toonist known for puncturing political pretensions early '60s...

...Braun (1959...

...Third, because white families can always protest by moving Joan Didion writes as if she experienced all of life in the or putting their children in private schools, and therefore the throes of a migraine...

...There can be no question bum" says, "Writing has not yet helped me to see what it that today's predicament has come about because, in al- means...

...This is surprisingly Mayor Byrne and the School Board are opposing not to say that if the proportion of black youngsters were the plan...

...permanently extraordinary state of mind, like having a migNevertheless in these cities the only current solution is exerting raine, can we imagine how she could write in the broken, both moderate pressure to obtain balanced integration in white dissociated way she does...

...The vision seems to be neither inward nor outward, but absent...

...You are unbearably Syracuse, N.Y...

...By 1969 patriotism was not in such good repute, and HERO OF THE YEAR the honor was thereafter called the Senior Fellow AMERICAN HISTORY IN MICROCOSM Award...

...Hyman Rickover sionment with politics...

...This is where the federal government should concentrate its efforts...

...It is so dark out it seems the sky Second, with limited numbers of white children remaining has overflowed, washing away the stars...

...Didion's face is amazingly blank...

...The older patriotism briefly returns with the (Garry Trudeau, 1977...

...Looking over the list, one thinks are all critics of American society: John Gardner already of a lost, and more innocent, America...

...Their (1958) for his relentless investigation of the Teamsters, choices of McCarthy, Kunstler and Berrigan could just and finally to that great American patriot Wernher von as easily have been made by Harvard or Yale seniors...

...Sojourn" immediately preceding that "In Bed" is one taken Fourth, in cities like Fort Wayne, Toledo, Tulsa, Rockford, "In Hollywood...

...This would not,only help the 4000 children involved and lighten the burden on the still predomiRoy Scheele nantly black schools, but most importantly it would be a step toward showing the suburban neighbors that integration can be Up Early One October Morning accomplished, without adversely affecting behavior patterns or school scores...

...What must be recognized however is that out of 60,000 white chilNow lonely, dren in the primary schools only 46,000 are in predominantly With both my mother and the summer withered, white schools...

...Before 1977, when there were some I take my chances in the perilous weather, fifty schools in Chicago that had virtually no black children, Defy this feline town, this reptile season...

...People like a genuflection toward Watergate...

...For show the country's lack of direction and a discomfort the next few years the choices of Notre Dame seniors with heroism itself...

...drawal from political life and passion...

...What Compton of the Urban League and other black leaders, as well gives her journalism its distinct personality is her ability not to as James Coleman and other social scientists...

...The nostrils flare as if Ms...

...William The years after Watergate reveal more than a withWestmoreland in 1966 and 1967...

...in the city school population, integration must be done on a Hung by the handle, the Little Dipper limited basis...

...In honor of my mother's final summer, A bird, perhaps no larger than her hope was, WHAT FINALLY, does this study tell us...

...To be sure, the hottest controversy in the field is over As Nancy St...

...But the shift in Notre Dame's choice of of Notre Dame started a program whereby each senior heroes involved more than the war...

...will write you a tragedy...

...There isno question that the introducment...

...Her point is that movies are a product balanced ratios, in order to avoid the hard-to-shake burden of controlled by the people who supply and manage the money segregated schools...

...Likewise a study by the South- Moreover, she added, integration "in the long run increases ern Regional Council found that generally black children the aspiration, self-esteem and sense of environmental conlearn more in desegregated schools than in segregated ones, trol for black youth...

...JOHN P. ROSS] Cause, Sen...

...The features seem almost to quiver like antennae...

...This is not simply proposed in the name of drips into the pail as it dries...

...discrete...

...schools and enormous pressure to effect radical change in It is in this state of mind that Didion looks at movies...

...In the 1960s Notre Dame students Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (1955), Robert F. Kennedy fell in with the rest of the nation ideologically...

...In 1979, (1968), Secretary of HEW and founder of Common fittingly enough, no one was chosen...

...Only by thinking of Didion as someone in a ted and fostered for far too long by the Boards of Education...

...and this tipping point varies from comJohn Nixon, Jr...