Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independence from material possessions that you attribute to them. It appears, however, that you are describing the extreme minority. The tragedy of the hippies is that the great majority of these mop-haired, dirty escapists are simply overindulged kids who have had too much of everything that an affluent society can provide them. Now they want all the privileges of our society but none of the responsibilities. We are fooling ourselves when we look for the hidden good in them while totally ignoring the obvious evil...
...Presbyterian Church's membership is largely white, suburban, middle class to affluent, well-educated, Republican, establishment-minded and property-conscious. It includes racists, militarists, Birchers, and philanderers; it includes supporters of black power, pacifists and peace workers, philanthropists, and celibates...
...this has potential significance beyond the housing market. The traditional Cambridge is pictured as a city of separate, tightly-knit communities remaining from that time that the city absorbed large numbers of immigrants. The national groups stuck together closely, although time and affluence have weakened the bonds as affluent sons and daughters moved up and away. But these communities have persisted in modified form. A drive along Cambridge St. east from Harvard Square reveals only a superficial reminder of this continuity: a long string of small stores and shops geared almost exclusively to the needs of local neighborhoods...
...Wright delivered his 183-page ruling in a case involving the schools of Washington, D.C., in which 90% of the students are Negroes. "Racially and socially homogeneous schools," he declared, "damage the minds and spirit of all children who attend them-the Negro, the white, the poor and the affluent-and block the attainment of the broader goals of democratic education, whether the segregation occurs by law or by fact...
This thesis is not wholly new, and thus it might attract less attention if this were not a Galbraith book. He wrote one of the two or three most quoted books on economics in the past decade, The Affluent Society, and he considers that to have been only a prelude to this more comprehensive work. Ever since he broadcast chunks of it in six widely discussed lectures on the BBC late last year (TIME, Jan. 6), it has been awaited by his fans on Capitol Hill and beyond...