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...elite spends more than traditional single-earner families on entertainment, furniture, cameras, kitchen equipment, cars, travel. Compared with older affluent people, they spend more casually on golf, tennis and swimming club memberships. They buy more fast-food take-outs and restaurant meals; when cooking at home, they prefer costlier foods and wines. They pay freely for child care, and the working wife needs her own full wardrobe of office clothes. Their philosophy is expressed by a community service representative for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, Robert Molina, 24, whose wife is a clerk in the sheriffs office: "When...
...beginning, The Country Cousin more or less follows the plot of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Like Wharton's orphaned Lily Bart, taken up by affluent friends and coached on how to navigate the perilous shoals of custom and snobbery in fashionable New York City circa 1900, Auchincloss's Amy Hunt moves in with her elderly cousin, Dolly Chadbourne, following the death of her parents. But Lily resists the eligible lawyer who importunes her, and commits suicide rather than compromise her reputation. Several decades and revolutions later, the more liberated Amy runs off with...
...desegregation after Brown vs. Board of Education had convinced him that his hope is a "slim" one. He thought it was ironic that the injection of race into university admissions could cause such a disturbance, when preferences have always been given to "those possessed of athletic skills, to the affluent who may bestow their largesse on the institutions, and to those having connections with celebrities, the famous and the powerful." He concluded: "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race...
...killer, both before and after his capture--was in an ideal spot to portray the anguish and frustration of searching for, and being taunted by, a man who quite accurately referred to himself as "Mr. Monster." And when the book deals with the killings in Forest Hills, an overly-affluent neighborhood in Queens Breslin now calls home, the writing understandably gains power, seeming less the dry scribblings in a reporter's notebook and more the work of a man who has come too close to tragedy ever to treat it clinically. This is Breslin at his best, the fire...
...unfettered train trip is clearly more comfortable and practical than airliner or bus. A number of elderly passengers, mostly occupying bedrooms and roomettes, relish the scenery and the food -in no hurry. The surprising thing about the passenger roster is the proportion of young people aboard. Footloose and relatively affluent, they represent a new youth fad: a return to the rails, sanctioned for every environmental, ecological and romantic reason...