The child was fairly eating me up with her cold, steady eyes, and no expression on her face whatever. She did not move and seemed, inwardly, (1) ; an unusually attractive little thing, and as strong as a heifer in (2) . But her face was flushed, she was breathing. (3) , and I realized that she had a high fever. She had magnificent (4) hair, in profusion. One of those picture children often reproduced in (5) leaflets and the photogravure sections of the Sunday papers.

It is still women--about three million volunteers--who do most of this work in the American political world. The best any of (6) can hope for is the honor of being district or county vice-chairman, a kind of separate-but-equal position with which a woman is (7) for years of faithful envelope stuffing and card-party (8) . In such a job, she gets a number of free trips to state and (9) national meetings and conventions, where her (10) is supposed to be to vote the way her male chairman votes.

The value of art-snobbery to living artists is considerable. True, most art-snobs (11) only the works of the dead; for an Old Master is both a (12) investment and a holier culture-symbol than a (13) master. But some art-snobs are also modernity-snobs. There are (14) of them, with the few eccentrics who like works of art for their own (15) , to provide living artists with the means of subsistence.

Without thinking, we are making animportant confession about ourselves as a nation. We are (16) qualityeven, to some extent, the quality of people. The "best" is becoming too (17) for us. We are suckling (18) on machine-made mediocrity. It is bad for our souls, our minds, and our digestion. It is the (19) our wiser and calmer forebears (20) , not people, but hogs: as much as possible and as fast as possible, with no standard of quality.

There is a difference between my schooling and the wisdom of the street comer. I (21) the life of a black man in Watts is larger than a federal (22) program. If there is no future for the black ghetto, the future of all Negroes is (23) What affects it, affects me, for I am a (24) of the ghetto. When they do it to Watts, they do it to me, too. I'll never escape from the ghetto. I have (25) my all on its future. Watts is my home.

A.good
B.staked
C.rapidly
D.organizing
E.living
F.enough
G.safer
H.ourselves
I.fed
J.diminished
K.child
L.appearance
M.them
N.sometimes
O.sake
P.abandoning
Q.poverty
R.rewarded
S.blonde
T.collect
U.advertising
V.quiet
W.way
X.know
Y.role