So at least the historical evidence seems to suggest. When I was graduating from college, my generation also found the world in a__1__. The economic machinery had broken down almost__2 __. In this country nearly a quarter of the__3__ was out of work. A major war seemed all too likely. As a college newspaper__4__ at this time, I protested against that just as__5__ as student activists are protesting today.
When a bright young woman graduate starts looking for a job, why is the__6__question always: “Can you type?” A history of prejudice lies__7__ that question. Why are women thought of as secretaries, not__8__ ? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers? Because they are thought of as different and__9__. The happy homemaker and the contended darky are both__10__ produced by prejudice.
Literacy may not be an inalienable human right, but it is one that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found__11__ or even unattainable. We are not only not attaining it as a nation, __12__ speaking, but we are falling further and further__13__ of attaining it. And, while I would not be so__14__ as to suggest that television is the cause, I believe it__15__and is an influence.
Now, very often, television coverage of news is__ 16__ and inadequate. Very often the picture takes__17__ over the point. But by and large the news reports and__18__ on CBS and NBC and ABC make every effort to present viewers with more than one__19__ of an issue, either by letting opposing spokesmen have their say, or by __20__ the positions held by both major parties on the subject involved.
American politics, at both the state and the__21__ levels, is too much concerned with the protection of large fortunes. The wealth qualification__22__ the aspiring politician is taken for granted; a government system__23__to the promotion of personal wealth in a few selected areas will never act for the public good. The time has come, __24__ , for citizens to demand, from their government, amenities for the many, of which adequate state__25__ and sickness benefits, as well as nationalized transport, should be priorities.

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