Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politician's instinct for self-preservation, sees divergent trends. It discerns a conservative swing in the country-a swing accentuated, paradoxically, by the murder of one of the nation's most articulate liberals. The rationale is that the majority of Americans, the white and the relatively affluent, now crave a return to a kind of ordered normality that may in fact never again exist in traditional terms. How deep and long-lived this trend to the right will prove to be can only be guessed at. A real test will not come until the election is decided...
...runs the risk of becoming a callous and self-righteous, indeed, a bullying nation," declared Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn in an address at Fresno State. "You have warned us that our social and political institutions show signs of congealing into unresponsive and bureaucratic establishments-you have caught our affluent society in the act of becoming a smug society." Speaking at Connecticut's Fairfield University, Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams paid students a high compliment. "Through the scientific genius of my generation," he said, "we have made the world a neighborhood. Now, through the moral and spiritual genius of yours...
...ghettos' most urgent need. But more and more museum curators are eager to prove that it does have a role to play in the blighted areas of their cities. They are all too aware that museums on Sundays are filled almost exclusively with affluent whites; although black and Spanish-speaking schoolchildren may be guided through for a fleeting visit by their teachers, few return with their parents, and still fewer poor adults come in alone. To open their eyes, white administrators are now taking art to the ghettos with branch museums or art-mobiles. Often, they find whole streets...
...only man in the country, save perhaps the President, who could make headlines with almost anything he said-and knew also that this did not always help him. He publicly questioned the war long before it became popular to do so, spoke in favor of the poor in affluent areas where it was clearly not to his advantage, and defended law and order in the ghettos, where such a statement by any other white man would have been interpreted as anti-Negro. A curious blend of liberal and conservative, he was concerned about poverty and the cities, yet convinced that...
...telling, of course, whether Bob Kennedy would have made the White House on this run. A summer of riots, the impasse in Paris, and rising Vietnam casualty rates could well have eroded Vice President Humphrey's delegate lead. And much of Senator McCarthy's liberal, affluent support might have resigned itself to the former Attorney General. Yet the importance of the Kennedy campaign--or, indeed, the post-1963 Kennedy career--doesn't lie merely in what it might have been. Grief-stricken Kennedy backers should take some solace in a contribution Kennedy has made to the American political culture which...