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...example of his point, Coles pointed to a situation where a child from a relatively affluent part of Florida went off to play with a child whose parents were migrant workers. The rich child's parents reprimanded him when they found...
...group (70% were 55 or older) who paid up to $2,500 each to fly the 7,100 miles from Los Angeles to Las Palmas, where they were to board the M.S. Golden Odyssey for a twelve-day "Mediterranean Highlights" cruise. The congenial tourists, including about 40 from the affluent retirement community of Leisure World near Laguna Hills, Calif, had some 75 unexpected extra minutes to get acquainted at Los Angeles International Airport when their charter flight was delayed. Roy L. Dorcich, 70, told Jim Naik, 37, an officer of the Royal Cruise Line, Inc., which booked the tour...
...life until now, Schlesinger muses, in a sense has been a preparation for his present assignment. One of two sons, he was born into an affluent New York City Jewish family whose accountant father possessed, in the words of Jim's only brother, Eugene, "probably the brightest analytical mind we have ever met." Jim Schlesinger attended the right schools: P.S. 6, Horace Mann, Harvard (summa cum laude. Class of '50), where he was a classmate of Henry Kissinger. After earning his B.A. in economics, Schlesinger took off in 1950 on a traveling fellowship to Europe. In Vienna, then...
...Galbraith has seen many previously radical ideas become not only respectable but even stodgy. He confronts the world and its problems as a supremely rational man-and something of an entertainer. Recalling the biblical warning to the wealthy, he writes. "There is that terrible needle through which the affluent must be threaded before they can emerge in paradise. Accordingly, if you are either rich or a camel, you should, as a purely practical calculation, enjoy life now." Behind this elegant raillery, Galbraith maintains a cool, doctor-patient relationship with the world. The combination of wit and seriousness makes...
...Done Wrong is neither as fast-moving nor as tear-jerking as Love Story, and it doesn't tell you as much about your future as The Paper Chase. It tells you about your past, or more probably, someone else's. It addresses a small audience, made up of affluent young men and their fathers, and maybe even their mothers and girlfriends. It can't tell you why you wanted to punch your father one hot summer day, or why you didn't do it, or why he later punched you, or even why you still love each other...