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From the outset, John and Mo Dean maintained a low social profile in their $70,000 brick town house on Quay Street in Alexandria's affluent Old Town section, just 200 yards from the Potomac. Now, of course, the profile is lower still. Occasionally, they eat out with the Goldwaters, who live across the street. One recent Saturday, another neighbor, Ervin Committee Member Lowell Weicker, dropped in for beer and pretzels. Before the worst of Watergate, the Deans played tennis and golf, swam and sailed their 18-ft. boat. Nattily dressed in broad-lapel suits and wide ties, Dean...
...Depending on one's pocketbook and palate, there are still many good buys to be had, and oenologists are helping laymen to search them out. Michael Aaron, vice president of Manhattan's Sherry-Lehmann Co., one of the largest wine retailers in the U.S., says that the affluent customer who balks at paying $60 for a 1970 Château Lafite label (it was $30 a year ago) can go to a quite acceptable Beychevelle at "only...
Four years ago, in the affluent suburbs west of Boston, the freshmen at Lincoln-Sudbury High School had passionate causes. They marched against the Viet Nam War and rallied on Lincoln green to denounce President Nixon...
...begun gearing the Press's activities to these trends. "Books always feel the economic pinch first," Rosenthal said last week. "The problems that the Press ran into here were largely not understanding the market. After the fantastic money of the Johnson years, the Press didn't prepare for less affluent times. A press should bend itself to the nth degree to publish as many scholarly works as possible, but you must ultimately reach a certain point which you cannot pass or you will destroy yourself. The Press here crossed that point...
WHAT IS MOST disturbing about conservative attacks on the student left is that many of the charges were right on the mark. The student left often did come to be characterized by its own forms of elitism and intellectual arrogance. For example, the affluent student who rejected the goal of a comfortable house with a car, a dishwasher and a television set could not understand why a worker should seek after such material goods. Often, of course, a much more sophisticated analysis was developed around the idea of "alienated consumption," which meant that the average worker was sacrificing the possibility...