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<font size="5">'''The catchers<br />in the Right'''</font>

<font size="4">'''[[Author:Peter Willis|PETER WILLIS]]'''</font>

<div style="text-align:justify;">'''{{BL|THE UNATTACHED|BLL01001136002}} by {{popup|Mary Morse|Master of Social Work, McGill University}}.  (Pelican 3s. 6d.)'''

{{sc|One of the basic tenets of anarchist evangelism}} (if they aren{{t}} mutually exclusive terms) is, common with that of the church or any other body, to catch {{a}}em young. In the anarchist case this applies more in practice than in theory, simply because anarchist characteristics—open-minded questioning, dislike of authority, a capacity for honesty—are essentially youthful qualities. Not all the young possess them, alack, but they tend to be lost rather than acquired with age. They are a bit more common, though, than a discouraged anarchist might think; it{{s}} just that those who possess them have a healthy suspicion of any organisation and are, logically, unlikely to form themselves into that notorious paradox, an anarchist organisation.

{{tab}}There are, however, other hunters out. In 1960, three incognito social workers were sent to three different towns {{qq|to make contact with unattached young people, to discover their interests and leisure-time activities and, following this, to help in whatever way seems appropriate}}. The project was organised by the {{w|National Association of Youth Clubs|UK_Youth|UK Youth}}, and {{sc|the unattached}} is an account of these people ({{qq|unattached}}, as might be expected in a NAYC project, meant unattached to any official organisation; nobody seems to have expected that the unattached might be perfectly happily attached to each other), and how the workers fared in {{qq|Seagate}}, {{qq|Northtown}} and {{qq|Midford}}, finding, and establishing relationships with, the unattached in, mainly, coffee bars (an apt subtitle might have been: {{qq|With Net and Notebook Through Darkest {{w|Gaggia}}-land}}). The principal value and delight of the book is that it is an amazingly real piece of evidence (about the unattached ''and'' the workers); almost as good as a novel—if not better in parts; the bald sketching-in of characters which nevertheless reveals very clearly the real people behind them, and the in-spite-of-itself moving description—written in best casebook manner, not unsympathetic but asympathetic—of the sad and inevitable disintegration of the Seagate group.
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 {{tab}}The type of act&shy;iv&shy;ity most pop&shy;u&shy;lar with all the groups (apart from the play pro&shy;duced by the Sea&shy;gate group—a logical next step for a group con&shy;sist&shy;ently more self-integ&shy;rated, art&shy;ic&shy;u&shy;late and cre&shy;at&shy;ive than the others) was dis&shy;cus&shy;sion, al&shy;most as a group ther&shy;apy, talk&shy;ing about them&shy;selves, their en&shy;vir&shy;on&shy;ments, and about larger issues—the un&shy;at&shy;tached were far from un&shy;at&shy;tached in their con&shy;cern for so&shy;ci&shy;ety, vide the {{qq|{{w|ban-the bomb|Nuclear_disarmament|Nuclear disarmament}}, {{w|abolish-hang&shy;ing|Murder_(Abolition_of_Death_Penalty)_Act_1965|Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965}}}} group at Mid&shy;ford. All three work&shy;ers used their flats as centres for dis&shy;cus&shy;sions, where their func&shy;tion was to act as a cat&shy;alyst; en&shy;cour&shy;aging, pro&shy;vok&shy;ing and oc&shy;ca&shy;sion&shy;ally hold&shy;ing back. This was only pos&shy;sible be&shy;cause each worker was tot&shy;ally ac&shy;cepted as one of them by his or her group. (Most un&shy;at&shy;tached groups na&shy;tur&shy;ally pos&shy;sess some&shy;where some such older, wiser mem&shy;ber.) It was this fact of total ac&shy;cept&shy;ance that made it {{qq|an in&shy;sol&shy;uble prob&shy;lem}} for the work&shy;ers to find suit&shy;able re&shy;place&shy;ments for them&shy;selves when the pro&shy;jects finished—it will con&shy;tinue to be so as long as they con&shy;tinue to look to the present Youth Ser&shy;vice for this facil&shy;ity, and to re&shy;fer to it as {{qq|ado&shy;les&shy;cent coun&shy;sel&shy;ling}}.
-{{tab}}This is where the pro&shy;ject really falls flat. The whole tone and evid&shy;ence of the work&shy;er{{s|r}} re&shy;ports in&shy;dic&shy;ate that the au&shy;thor&shy;it&shy;arian and con&shy;des&shy;cend&shy;ing at&shy;ti&shy;tude of the ex&shy;ist&shy;ing youth ser&shy;vice is un&shy;suit&shy;able and in&shy;ad&shy;equate for the needs of the un&shy;at&shy;tached. They found the clubs {{qq|un&shy;soph&shy;ist&shy;ic&shy;ated}} and the clubs found them {{qq|dis&shy;turb&shy;ing}}. The Mid&shy;ford worker wrote frankly: {{qq|To some ex&shy;tent these clubs seemed to me to at&shy;tract the sort of mem&shy;bers they de&shy;served ({{q|thir&shy;teen-year-olds}}, {{q|kid&shy;dies and {{popup|heart&shy;ies|jocks}}}}; {{q|a load of {{popup|twots|twats; idiots}}}}). I could never re&shy;com&shy;mend such a club to the at&shy;ten&shy;tion of my present un&shy;at&shy;tached con&shy;tacts.}} But they never quite lose faith. In Sea&shy;gate, after the group{{s}} play had been per&shy;formed at a Youth Drama Fest&shy;ival, where it was not al&shy;lowed to com&shy;pete on ac&shy;count of the group not be&shy;ing af&shy;fili&shy;ated to the local Youth As&shy;so&shy;ci&shy;a&shy;tion, the worker per&shy;suaded them that the af&shy;fi&shy;li&shy;a&shy;tion would be worth their while. {{qq|Rather re&shy;luct&shy;antly, the group de&shy;cided to ap&shy;ply. The of&shy;fi&shy;cial ap&shy;pli&shy;ca&shy;tion form proved im&shy;pos&shy;sible to com&shy;plete and the ap&shy;pli&shy;ca&shy;tion was fin&shy;ally made by let&shy;ter in which it was ar&shy;gued that the group had never found it ne&shy;ces&shy;sary to draw up a con&shy;sti&shy;tu&shy;tion nor of&shy;fi&shy;cially ap&shy;point of&shy;fi&shy;cers and a com&shy;mit&shy;tee. The work of the group had been done ef&shy;fi&shy;ciently and en&shy;thu&shy;si&shy;astic&shy;ally with&shy;out the aid and sup&shy;port of such a struc&shy;ture. The let&shy;ter went on to state that the group was a spon&shy;tane&shy;ous and flex&shy;ible one and that the ele&shy;ment of form&shy;al&shy;ity im&shy;plied by the form was con&shy;trary to the spirit of the group. As a re&shy;sult, the {{w|Local Edu&shy;ca&shy;tion Au&shy;thor&shy;ity|Local_education_authority|Local education authority}} granted the group {{q|tem&shy;porary af&shy;fi&shy;li&shy;a&shy;tion}} {{e}} The prin&shy;cipal mot&shy;ive in ap&shy;ply&shy;ing was the purely self&shy;ish one of be&shy;ing able to enter com&shy;peti&shy;tions and use LEA equip&shy;ment.}} The worker, al&shy;though aware of this, {{p|160}}en&shy;cour&shy;aged the group to ap&shy;ply in what he de&shy;scribes as {{qq|the hope}} that {{qq|a more posit&shy;ive at&shy;ti&shy;tude to&shy;wards of&shy;fi&shy;cial&shy;dom might en&shy;sue}}. This is un&shy;likely<!-- 'unikely' in original --> while the func&shy;tion of the Youth Ser&shy;vice is to gra&shy;ciously wel&shy;come {{qq|the young people}} to the adult world of dreary jobs and—to avoid awk&shy;ward con&shy;trasts—mean&shy;ing&shy;less pas&shy;times. Most of the un&shy;at&shy;tached, quite reason&shy;ably, were dis&shy;satis&shy;fied with their jobs and, like the habitues of the [[Anarchy 27/The Teen Canteen 1|Teen Canteen]] ([[Anarchy 27|{{sc|anarchy}} 27]], but not men&shy;tioned in this book) {{qq|at&shy;tached ex&shy;ces&shy;sive im&shy;port&shy;ance to their off-work hours {{e}} they seek in lei&shy;sure the free&shy;dom and dig&shy;nity de&shy;nied to them in work}}.<!-- period before quotation mark in original --> This is pat&shy;ently not pro&shy;vided in the {{w|ping-pong|Table_tennis|Table tennis}} and party-games type of youth club, which is really a time-killer for the well-adjusted and {{qq|normal}} (a word they have the grace to put in in&shy;verted com&shy;mas). Nothing is thought of such as the Teen Canteen or {{w|Ray Gosling|Ray_Gosling|Ray Gosling}}{{s}} fam&shy;ous {{l|Leicester Club|https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/objects/lse:lok672roc|full text of Lady Albemarle’s Boys by Ray Gosling}}. ({{qq|It started as a caff run by the lads for the lads; grass roots, ground level}}<ref><font size="2">{{qq|{{BL|Sum Total|BLL01006992034}}}} by {{w|Ray Gosling|Ray_Gosling|Ray Gosling}}. Faber, 1962. p 154.</font></ref>) which, al&shy;though eventu&shy;ally closed down, was a suc&shy;cess in terms of in&shy;volve&shy;ment:
+{{tab}}This is where the pro&shy;ject really falls flat. The whole tone and evid&shy;ence of the work&shy;er{{s|r}} re&shy;ports in&shy;dic&shy;ate that the au&shy;thor&shy;it&shy;arian and con&shy;des&shy;cend&shy;ing at&shy;ti&shy;tude of the ex&shy;ist&shy;ing youth ser&shy;vice is un&shy;suit&shy;able and in&shy;ad&shy;equate for the needs of the un&shy;at&shy;tached. They found the clubs {{qq|un&shy;soph&shy;ist&shy;ic&shy;ated}} and the clubs found them {{qq|dis&shy;turb&shy;ing}}. The Mid&shy;ford worker wrote frankly: {{qq|To some ex&shy;tent these clubs seemed to me to at&shy;tract the sort of mem&shy;bers they de&shy;served ({{q|thir&shy;teen-year-olds}}, {{q|kid&shy;dies and {{popup|heart&shy;ies|jocks}}}}; {{q|a load of {{popup|twots|twats; idiots}}}}). I could never re&shy;com&shy;mend such a club to the at&shy;ten&shy;tion of my present un&shy;at&shy;tached con&shy;tacts.}} But they never quite lose faith. In Sea&shy;gate, after the group{{s}} play had been per&shy;formed at a Youth Drama Fest&shy;ival, where it was not al&shy;lowed to com&shy;pete on ac&shy;count of the group not be&shy;ing af&shy;fili&shy;ated to the local Youth As&shy;so&shy;ci&shy;a&shy;tion, the worker per&shy;suaded them that the af&shy;fi&shy;li&shy;a&shy;tion would be worth their while. {{qq|Rather re&shy;luct&shy;antly, the group de&shy;cided to ap&shy;ply. The of&shy;fi&shy;cial ap&shy;pli&shy;ca&shy;tion form proved im&shy;pos&shy;sible to com&shy;plete and the ap&shy;pli&shy;ca&shy;tion was fin&shy;ally made by let&shy;ter in which it was ar&shy;gued that the group had never found it ne&shy;ces&shy;sary to draw up a con&shy;sti&shy;tu&shy;tion nor of&shy;fi&shy;cially ap&shy;point of&shy;fi&shy;cers and a com&shy;mit&shy;tee. The work of the group had been done ef&shy;fi&shy;ciently and en&shy;thu&shy;si&shy;astic&shy;ally with&shy;out the aid and sup&shy;port of such a struc&shy;ture. The let&shy;ter went on to state that the group was a spon&shy;tane&shy;ous and flex&shy;ible one and that the ele&shy;ment of form&shy;al&shy;ity im&shy;plied by the form was con&shy;trary to the spirit of the group. As a re&shy;sult, the {{w|Local Edu&shy;ca&shy;tion Au&shy;thor&shy;ity|Local_education_authority|Local education authority}} granted the group {{q|tem&shy;porary af&shy;fi&shy;li&shy;a&shy;tion}} {{e}} The prin&shy;cipal mot&shy;ive in ap&shy;ply&shy;ing was the purely self&shy;ish one of be&shy;ing able to enter com&shy;peti&shy;tions and use LEA equip&shy;ment.}} The worker, al&shy;though aware of this, {{p|160}}en&shy;cour&shy;aged the group to ap&shy;ply in what he de&shy;scribes as {{qq|the hope}} that {{qq|a more posit&shy;ive at&shy;ti&shy;tude to&shy;wards of&shy;fi&shy;cial&shy;dom might en&shy;sue}}. This is un&shy;likely<!-- 'unikely' in original --> while the func&shy;tion of the Youth Ser&shy;vice is to gra&shy;ciously wel&shy;come {{qq|the young people}} to the adult world of dreary jobs and—to avoid awk&shy;ward con&shy;trasts—mean&shy;ing&shy;less pas&shy;times. Most of the un&shy;at&shy;tached, quite reason&shy;ably, were dis&shy;satis&shy;fied with their jobs and, like the habitues of the [[Anarchy 27/The Teen Canteen 1|Teen Canteen]] ([[Anarchy 27|{{sc|anarchy}} 27]], but not men&shy;tioned in this book) {{qq|at&shy;tached ex&shy;ces&shy;sive im&shy;port&shy;ance to their off-work hours {{e}} they seek in lei&shy;sure the free&shy;dom and dig&shy;nity de&shy;nied to them in work}}.<!-- period before quotation mark in original --> This is pat&shy;ently not pro&shy;vided in the {{w|ping-pong|Table_tennis|Table tennis}} and party-games type of youth club, which is really a time-killer for the well-adjusted and {{qq|normal}} (a word they have the grace to put in in&shy;verted com&shy;mas). Nothing is thought of such as the Teen Canteen or {{w|Ray Gosling|Ray_Gosling|Ray Gosling}}{{s}} fam&shy;ous {{l|Leicester Club|https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/objects/lse:lok672roc|Full text: Lady Albemarle’s Boys by Ray Gosling at the London School of Economics Digital Library}}. ({{qq|It started as a caff run by the lads for the lads; grass roots, ground level}}<ref><font size="2">{{qq|{{BL|Sum Total|BLL01006992034}}}} by {{w|Ray Gosling|Ray_Gosling|Ray Gosling}}. Faber, 1962. p 154.</font></ref>) which, al&shy;though eventu&shy;ally closed down, was a suc&shy;cess in terms of in&shy;volve&shy;ment:
 {{tab}}{{qq|I re&shy;member com&shy;ing back one night from {{w|Ox&shy;ford|Oxford}}, and it was around four in the morn&shy;ing, and as we came in over the bridge to the {{w|Central Sta&shy;tion|Leicester_Central_railway_station|Leicester Central railway station}}, I could see the lights and the open door. Walk&shy;ing down the street from the sta&shy;tion and in through the door, and the {{w|juke&shy;box|Jukebox|Jukebox}} was play&shy;ing, and there were two dancing couples, beau&shy;ti&shy;fully and slowly soft, and one be&shy;hind the bar. There had been a good take-in from the till, and the cof&shy;fee was still good and hot and fresh. There was blood on the floor, and the dirt from a fast night. It had a wonder&shy;ful used look about it. It was an oasis in a {{w|city|Leicester|Leicester}} of the dead. The only place open. That was the way I liked it. That was the way it could have been. It be&shy;came that night both open and ex&shy;clusive; the sort of place where I could feel proud at be&shy;ing a cus&shy;tomer.}}<ref><font size="2">Ibid. p 161.</font></ref>

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 {{tab}}The work&shy;ers, al&shy;though not at all pain&shy;fully im&shy;paled on its horns do give some in&shy;dic&shy;a&shy;tion of being faintly aware of the di&shy;lemma that haunts (or should) every&shy;one whose job in&shy;volves men&shy;tal wel&shy;fare: whether to en&shy;cour&shy;age basic&shy;ally healthy men&shy;tal at&shy;ti&shy;tudes when&shy;ever they are found, re&shy;gard&shy;less of the con&shy;flicts this will lead to in a sick so&shy;ci&shy;ety, or whether to so am&shy;pu&shy;tate and adapt them that they will fit neatly into so&shy;ci&shy;ety as it is. The work&shy;ers all speak of re&shy;bel&shy;lion against {{qq|adult val&shy;ues}},<!-- comma omitted in original --> {{qq|au&shy;thor&shy;ity}}, {{qq|so&shy;ci&shy;ety}}, but never stop for long enough to even briefly {{p|158}}ques&shy;tion these val&shy;ues for them&shy;selves. {{qq|To a dis&shy;turb&shy;ing de&shy;gree it was found that the un&shy;at&shy;tached young people were often con&shy;sciously or un&shy;con&shy;sciously at&shy;tack&shy;ing the work&shy;er{{s|r}} own stand&shy;ards and val&shy;ues.}} Surely they were in&shy;tel&shy;li&shy;gent and aware enough to real&shy;ise that no set of val&shy;ues is ever a way of life in isol&shy;a&shy;tion, but, in a com&shy;mun&shy;ity where op&shy;pos&shy;ing val&shy;ues ob&shy;tain, is un&shy;avoid&shy;ably an im&shy;plied cri&shy;ti&shy;cism of those val&shy;ues? All they man&shy;aged to do was worry about the seem&shy;ing im&shy;possib&shy;il&shy;ity of their task. {{qq|Faced with all the dis&shy;crep&shy;an&shy;cies be&shy;tween tra&shy;di&shy;tional middle-class be&shy;liefs and middle-class be&shy;ha&shy;viour, how was the Sea&shy;gate worker to in&shy;dic&shy;ate {{e}} that middle-class val&shy;ues were prefer&shy;able to the {{q|bum}} philo&shy;sophy}} (note use of word {{qq|that}}). Al&shy;though this troubled them con&shy;tinu&shy;ally, they never—and this is the tragedy of the pro&shy;ject and the book—managed to find the right ques&shy;tions to ask. The only cri&shy;ti&shy;cisms of adult so&shy;ci&shy;ety, voiced with the nervous de&shy;fi&shy;ance of minor her&shy;es&shy;ies, are to the ef&shy;fect that its fail&shy;ings lie in not hav&shy;ing helped {{qq|these young people to feel that they belong}}. Des&shy;pite some shilly-shally&shy;ing, the basic creed is al&shy;ways re&shy;turned to: These are The Un&shy;at&shy;tached; at&shy;tach them. {{e}} They are in the wrong. We are in the right. NAYC know best.
-{{tab}}never&shy;the&shy;less, the work&shy;er{{s|r}} own ex&shy;peri&shy;ences of {{qq|adult}} at&shy;ti&shy;tudes and so&shy;cial con&shy;di&shy;tions ob&shy;liquely sup&shy;port the un&shy;at&shy;tached{{s}} re&shy;sent&shy;ment and dis&shy;trust. The North&shy;town work&shy;er{{s}} hor&shy;ri&shy;fy&shy;ing de&shy;scrip&shy;tion of the fact&shy;ory she worked in, and the Sea&shy;gate work&shy;er{{s}} dif&shy;fi&shy;culty in find&shy;ing {{qq|adults with an at&shy;ti&shy;tude suf&shy;fi&shy;ciently toler&shy;ant and under&shy;stand&shy;ing to ac&shy;cept the group for what it was with&shy;out wish&shy;ing to im&shy;pose change or in&shy;sist on con&shy;form&shy;ity to nar&shy;rowly de&shy;fined stand&shy;ards just for the sake of it}} both speak elo&shy;quently for them&shy;selves.
+{{tab}}Never&shy;the&shy;less, the work&shy;er{{s|r}} own ex&shy;peri&shy;ences of {{qq|adult}} at&shy;ti&shy;tudes and so&shy;cial con&shy;di&shy;tions ob&shy;liquely sup&shy;port the un&shy;at&shy;tached{{s}} re&shy;sent&shy;ment and dis&shy;trust. The North&shy;town work&shy;er{{s}} hor&shy;ri&shy;fy&shy;ing de&shy;scrip&shy;tion of the fact&shy;ory she worked in, and the Sea&shy;gate work&shy;er{{s}} dif&shy;fi&shy;culty in find&shy;ing {{qq|adults with an at&shy;ti&shy;tude suf&shy;fi&shy;ciently toler&shy;ant and under&shy;stand&shy;ing to ac&shy;cept the group for what it was with&shy;out wish&shy;ing to im&shy;pose change or in&shy;sist on con&shy;form&shy;ity to nar&shy;rowly de&shy;fined stand&shy;ards just for the sake of it}} both speak elo&shy;quently for them&shy;selves.
 {{tab}}The work&shy;ers them&shy;selves all achieved a fair meas&shy;ure of iden&shy;ti&shy;fic&shy;a&shy;tion with their un&shy;at&shy;tached. Sur&shy;pris&shy;ingly so since they didn{{t}} know what to ex&shy;pect. The Sea&shy;gate worker—age 22, played jazz piano, liked drama—met up with a vague but co&shy;hes&shy;ive group of in&shy;tel&shy;li&shy;gent middle-class rebels, many of whom had thrown up {{qq|life&shy;less, secure and com&shy;fort&shy;ing}} of&shy;fice jobs, and only worked cas&shy;u&shy;ally when they were short of money. Their ambi&shy;tions were to be&shy;come act&shy;ors, art&shy;ists, writ&shy;ers, mod&shy;els. The worker dis&shy;misses these as being {{qq|centred around highly-paid oc&shy;cu&shy;pa&shy;tions}}, but goes on to say, {{qq|Paul W., who felt he was being cre&shy;at&shy;ive at the arts col&shy;lege was the only one dur&shy;ing the three years that the worker heard admit to en&shy;joy&shy;ing his work}}. The Sea&shy;gate pro&shy;ject was per&shy;haps the most suc&shy;cess&shy;ful. Under the work&shy;er{{s}} guid&shy;ance, the group pro&shy;duced an {{w|Ionesco|Eugène_Ionesco|Eugène Ionesco}} play. At Mid&shy;ford, on the other hand, as be&shy;fits a more rural com&shy;mun&shy;ity where un&shy;avoid&shy;able so&shy;cial mix&shy;ing be&shy;tween age-groups pro&shy;duces a more con&shy;serv&shy;at&shy;ive at&shy;ti&shy;tude in young people, the worker—a 28-year-old {{w|school&shy;master|Schoolmaster}}—seems too stolid and humour&shy;less. While the Sea&shy;gate worker can talk al&shy;most non-judge&shy;ment&shy;ally of a girl being {{qq|sexu&shy;ally gen&shy;er&shy;ous}}, the Mid&shy;ford man writes: {{qq|Mavis {{e}} has been in&shy;volved with a great many local boys. Jean (an older, out&shy;side person) talked to some of this group re&shy;cently and told them of the dangers of lead&shy;ing this sort of life. They bluntly told her she didn{{t}} know what she was miss&shy;ing.}} He also men&shy;tions {{qq|rescu&shy;ing}} girls from {{qq|com&shy;prom&shy;is&shy;ing situ&shy;a&shy;tions with local boys}} (did he, like the {{w|Peter Sellers|Peter_Sellers}}{{a}} {{yt|head&shy;master|5Kwnh4RbX9s|Peter Sellers - A Common Entrance}}, {{p|159}}{{qq|go round with a crow&shy;bar and prize them apart}}?).

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 {{tab}}never&shy;the&shy;less, the work&shy;er{{s|r}} own ex&shy;peri&shy;ences of {{qq|adult}} at&shy;ti&shy;tudes and so&shy;cial con&shy;di&shy;tions ob&shy;liquely sup&shy;port the un&shy;at&shy;tached{{s}} re&shy;sent&shy;ment and dis&shy;trust. The North&shy;town work&shy;er{{s}} hor&shy;ri&shy;fy&shy;ing de&shy;scrip&shy;tion of the fact&shy;ory she worked in, and the Sea&shy;gate work&shy;er{{s}} dif&shy;fi&shy;culty in find&shy;ing {{qq|adults with an at&shy;ti&shy;tude suf&shy;fi&shy;ciently toler&shy;ant and under&shy;stand&shy;ing to ac&shy;cept the group for what it was with&shy;out wish&shy;ing to im&shy;pose change or in&shy;sist on con&shy;form&shy;ity to nar&shy;rowly de&shy;fined stand&shy;ards just for the sake of it}} both speak elo&shy;quently for them&shy;selves.
-{{tab}}The work&shy;ers them&shy;selves all achieved a fair meas&shy;ure of iden&shy;ti&shy;fic&shy;a&shy;tion with their un&shy;at&shy;tached. Sur&shy;pris&shy;ingly so since they didn{{t}} know what to ex&shy;pect. The Sea&shy;gate worker—age 22, played jazz piano, liked drama—met up with a vague but co&shy;hes&shy;ive group of in&shy;tel&shy;li&shy;gent middle-class rebels, many of whom had thrown up {{qq|life&shy;less, secure and com&shy;fort&shy;ing}} of&shy;fice jobs, and only worked cas&shy;u&shy;ally when they were short of money. Their ambi&shy;tions were to be&shy;come act&shy;ors, art&shy;ists, writ&shy;ers, mod&shy;els. The worker dis&shy;misses these as being {{qq|centred around highly-paid oc&shy;cu&shy;pa&shy;tions}}, but goes on to say, {{qq|Paul W., who felt he was being cre&shy;at&shy;ive at the arts col&shy;lege was the only one dur&shy;ing the three years that the worker heard admit to en&shy;joy&shy;ing his work}}. The Sea&shy;gate pro&shy;ject was per&shy;haps the most suc&shy;cess&shy;ful. Under the work&shy;er{{s}} guid&shy;ance, the group pro&shy;duced an {{w|Ionesco|Eugène_Ionesco|Eugène Ionesco}} play. At Mid&shy;ford, on the other hand, as be&shy;fits a more rural com&shy;mun&shy;ity where un&shy;avoid&shy;able so&shy;cial mix&shy;ing be&shy;tween age-groups pro&shy;duces a more con&shy;serv&shy;at&shy;ive at&shy;ti&shy;tude in young people, the worker—a 28-year-old {{w|school&shy;master|Schoolmaster}}—seems too stolid and humour&shy;less. While the Sea&shy;gate worker can talk al&shy;most non-judge&shy;ment&shy;ally of a girl being {{qq|sexu&shy;ally gen&shy;er&shy;ous}}, the Mid&shy;ford man writes: {{qq|Mavis {{e}} has been in&shy;volved with a great many local boys. Jean (an older, out&shy;side person) talked to some of this group re&shy;cently and told them of the dangers of lead&shy;ing this sort of life. They bluntly told her she didn{{t}} know what she was miss&shy;ing.}} He also men&shy;tions {{qq|rescu&shy;ing}} girls from {{qq|com&shy;prom&shy;is&shy;ing situ&shy;a&shy;tions with local boys}} (did he, like the {{w|Peter Sellers|Peter_Sellers}}{{a}} head&shy;master, {{p|159}}{{qq|go round with a crow&shy;bar and prize them apart}}?).
+{{tab}}The work&shy;ers them&shy;selves all achieved a fair meas&shy;ure of iden&shy;ti&shy;fic&shy;a&shy;tion with their un&shy;at&shy;tached. Sur&shy;pris&shy;ingly so since they didn{{t}} know what to ex&shy;pect. The Sea&shy;gate worker—age 22, played jazz piano, liked drama—met up with a vague but co&shy;hes&shy;ive group of in&shy;tel&shy;li&shy;gent middle-class rebels, many of whom had thrown up {{qq|life&shy;less, secure and com&shy;fort&shy;ing}} of&shy;fice jobs, and only worked cas&shy;u&shy;ally when they were short of money. Their ambi&shy;tions were to be&shy;come act&shy;ors, art&shy;ists, writ&shy;ers, mod&shy;els. The worker dis&shy;misses these as being {{qq|centred around highly-paid oc&shy;cu&shy;pa&shy;tions}}, but goes on to say, {{qq|Paul W., who felt he was being cre&shy;at&shy;ive at the arts col&shy;lege was the only one dur&shy;ing the three years that the worker heard admit to en&shy;joy&shy;ing his work}}. The Sea&shy;gate pro&shy;ject was per&shy;haps the most suc&shy;cess&shy;ful. Under the work&shy;er{{s}} guid&shy;ance, the group pro&shy;duced an {{w|Ionesco|Eugène_Ionesco|Eugène Ionesco}} play. At Mid&shy;ford, on the other hand, as be&shy;fits a more rural com&shy;mun&shy;ity where un&shy;avoid&shy;able so&shy;cial mix&shy;ing be&shy;tween age-groups pro&shy;duces a more con&shy;serv&shy;at&shy;ive at&shy;ti&shy;tude in young people, the worker—a 28-year-old {{w|school&shy;master|Schoolmaster}}—seems too stolid and humour&shy;less. While the Sea&shy;gate worker can talk al&shy;most non-judge&shy;ment&shy;ally of a girl being {{qq|sexu&shy;ally gen&shy;er&shy;ous}}, the Mid&shy;ford man writes: {{qq|Mavis {{e}} has been in&shy;volved with a great many local boys. Jean (an older, out&shy;side person) talked to some of this group re&shy;cently and told them of the dangers of lead&shy;ing this sort of life. They bluntly told her she didn{{t}} know what she was miss&shy;ing.}} He also men&shy;tions {{qq|rescu&shy;ing}} girls from {{qq|com&shy;prom&shy;is&shy;ing situ&shy;a&shy;tions with local boys}} (did he, like the {{w|Peter Sellers|Peter_Sellers}}{{a}} {{yt|head&shy;master|5Kwnh4RbX9s|Peter Sellers - A Common Entrance}}, {{p|159}}{{qq|go round with a crow&shy;bar and prize them apart}}?).
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