Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pollsters can't seem to get together on how much television the nation's leaders and tastemakers sit still for. The Louis Harris poll has found signs of "growing disenchantment with television on the part of affluent, better-educated adult Americans," but the Nielsen rating service claims that the upper echelons are watching more than before. Perhaps they are both right. A survey by TIME correspondents shows that America's first families do watch TV, to be sure. But mainly they limit their viewing to news, public affairs and sports. Relatively few of them switch on just...
Even in an affluent middle-class suburb, the modern, modular, $1,500,000 medical building would stand out. Along its cool white corridors hangs a collection of paintings that phase from photographic realism to violent impressionism. But many of the paintings, done by artists living in the neighborhood the medical building serves, are tinged with bitterness against white authority and the Government. For the building is the new Watts Health Center, smack in the middle of "Charcoal Alley," scene of the fiery Negro riots...
...university degree represents guaranteed access to a high-paying job. Anyone who graduates from Tokyo University has easy entry to any of the professions, biggest corporations or the top rungs of government. Seven of Japan's past ten Prime Ministers had degrees from Tokyo U. Keio students, more affluent than most, have inside tracks to good industrial and business posts. Waseda's tough-minded, politically oriented students tend to get first crack at jobs in journalism, while Hitotsubashi is strong on languages and produces many economists. Also good in language-training are Jesuit-run Sophia and the Protestant...
When a student becomes personally involved with the war, he experiences a type of frustration which is unusual for the affluent. To them the war is wrong and it seems like nothing can be done about it. The distinct possibility of being sent to Vietnam to die brings home the feeling of powerlessness and awareness of the student's inability to control his own fate...
...Maharishi evidently believes that his teachings are of special spiritual benefit to affluent, tension-ridden Westerners. In Aalborg, Denmark, last week, he defended his movement in couch-oriented terms. "Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind," said he. "Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And," he added sagely, "it can be taught very easily...