Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the solution, the poor need no longer suffer the extremes of actual hunger and physical debilitation. By guaranteeing a minimum income to every one of its citizens, a society as affluent as today's America can afford not only to keep its economic cripples well housed, well fed?and well?but also to provide them with the crucial increment of dignity that is denied by penury...
Students at the meeting charged that Harvard's admissions procedures were geared to admit affluent students. This bias was especially hard on blacks, they said, because they occupy the lower rungs on the economic scale...
What holds Hair together is the score, which pulses with an insistent, primitive beat. With gleeful impertinence, the music by Gait MacDermot and the lyrics of Gerome Ragni and James Rado manage to release the pent-up yelps of the sons and daughters of the affluent society. A song like Ain't Got No ("Ain't got no class,/Ain't got no mother,/Ain't got no father,/Ain't got no culture") telegraphs the credo of the self-proclaimed have-nots of the '60s. Satire with a playful nip makes a treat...
JOHN UPDIKE'S new novel, Couples, describes a modern purgatory, a world from which God has withdrawn, a community without grace or light or love. The book, the story of various adulterous affairs among a group of affluent suburban couples, bears an ironic quotation from Paul Tillich that outlines the novel's thesis. The quotation tells us that when the average citizen feels that "the decisions relating to the life of the society to which he belongs are a matter of fate on which he has no influence," then a mood is created that "is favorable to the resurgence...
...resurgent religion is not Christianity then, but a perverse humanism. The affluent young couples of Tarbox, Mass. find the comforts that religion used to provide--the alleviation of one's fear of death, the sense of community, the transfiguration of the world--not in the Church, but in their relations with each other...