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OTHER MANIFESTATIONS of the underwear fixation will appear in a wide variety of circumstances. We can safely predict that an inverted snobbery will develop, particularly among Ivy League and other "prestige college" students. Those students who come from affluent families and from Eastern elite private schools will shop for their under things at the very cheapest department stores in order to declare their independence from the accepted norms. Some will wear "Daddy's discards"--stretched out and sufficiently worn hand-me-down underwear. This will replace the traditional passing-on-of-the-tweed-jacket ritual. Less-wealthy students...
...Cable was the most ambitious and prestigious of the cultural cable services in the U.S., competing for a small if generally affluent audience of arts aficionados. CBS offered TV dramas featuring Sir Ralph Richardson and Peter O'Toole; a Swan Lake starring Ballerina Natalia Makarova; modern dance choreographed by Twyla Tharp; and Leonard Bernstein conducting Beethoven symphonies. Defining culture broadly, CBS also ran a probing nightly interview series, Signature, and a multi-episode look at modern history narrated by CBS Evening News Commentator Bill Moyers. More than 60% of the shows were produced by CBS, at costs ranging from...
...firm now has some 14 million pieces of plastic in use, against about 2 million for Diners' Club. Visa and MasterCard, which issue their cards through banks, are far bigger. Each has about 70 million cards in circulation. But Amex insists that its members are more affluent and use their cards more often...
...spend $26 million on advertising, up 75% from 1980. The budget for television commercials alone has quadrupled, to $10 million. To spur sales of larger, more profitable stones, a new slogan has been created: "A diamond of a carat or more is only one in a million." For less affluent buyers, De Beers is urging American parents to give their teen-age daughters small, heart-shaped diamond jewelry "for those special occasions ... as only a parent...
...policies in the Third World. I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world, whether we like it or not. It is difficult for the affluent countries to understand the pressures we have from our own people. We got left out of the race for industrialization, and we have to industrialize at a time when people are more conscious of their rights and privileges. For India, with its vast population [683 million], everything is multiplied that many times. Methods that work in an advanced society do not always work in ours. We are told...