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...some recent visitors to Ibiza have suspected that the Irvings are considerably less than affluent. According to some reports, he has lost heavily at poker on Ibiza and has lOUs out. (The dust jacket on his novel The 38th Floor calls him a onetime "professional poker player.") Neither he nor his wife dresses in a fashion indicating much wealth...
...liberal and leftist issues, now stress other concerns. The newly moderate leaders lose elections (because many voters no longer see them as standing for the issues that interest them). The election results are taken as additional proof of the rejection of radical politics on the part of the newly affluent masses. The response of the leadership is to call for still more moderation...
...slighter. He has kept whatever he wanted to say in Fingernails Blue as Flowers so skillfully concealed as to make it the dramatic equivalent of the perfect crime. At a guess, its Jamaica resort-hotel setting and tycoon hero stand for the sappingly corruptive effect of the affluent society on all stages and ages...
...women to expect more freedom and pleasure. Women now feel freer to go off with other men and leave their children to the care of their husbands. Besides, running away has become financially easier. Women have more education and can more readily find jobs. They are more affluent, so they can afford to flee by plane or in the family's second car. They also have the Pill-and the prospect of easier divorce. "Years ago," Investigator Gold-fader sums up, "a girl could run only to Mama, who would have told her to go home. Now, chances...
Ulam fails to mention that 85 per cent of the estimated 900,000 refugees were Catholics. Often affluent and sympathetic to France, these Vietnamese might indeed have had qualms about Ho Chi Minh's regime, and preferred the Catholic Diem and his family. A devoted campaign by Northern priests strengthened any propensities to emigration. The U.S. played a role as well. According to Bernard Fall, "the mass flight was admittedly the result of an extremely intensive, well-conducted, and, in terms of its objective, very successful American psychological warfare campaign. Propaganda slogans and leaflets appealed to the devout Catholics with...