Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such diverse subjects as jazz, religion, tourism, sibling rivalry, Eskimo art, and even the life cycle of the small-mouthed bass. This film, N.F.B.'s first full-length feature to be distributed commercially across the U.S., is a winsome if wobbly essay on the plight of two affluent delinquents swimming against the stream of life in Toronto...
...raises further problems and promises consequent evolution. Thus Fried says that intense personal revolutions occur in the artist's production of different series of works. His description follows the traditional, romantic conception of the artist's struggle to create, which seems only partially true in today's American, affluent society...
...overeat because I am a member of a dying and too-affluent class, which has nothing to do but kill itself with luxury...
Action on both bills came not in time of depression but in the midst of the most prosperous year that the affluent society has ever known. There were a few squawks about presidential pressure, but it was widely accepted that both measures would achieve great good in making the U.S. even more affluent without turning it into a socialistic society. It was generally conceded that both bills, despite the vastness of their scope, were aimed not at increasing the power of the Federal Government, but at eradicating some remaining blemishes in the Great Society...
Class conflict has substantially perpetuated this dilemma according to Weaver. He said that a plan which facilitates integration is often the least beneficial policy for securing good, low-income housing. He pointed out that it is primarily upper and middle-class Negroes who push for integration, while the lows affluent cannot afford this luxury...