Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other Joseph-types fantasize that the essentially impotent positions they hold are repositories of actual power (sometimes called the HCUA Delusion), or fool themselves into thinking that making a great deal of term-time money--and cultivating a middle-aged brusqueness towards less affluent classmates--is an equivalent substitute for influence in the community, or for real-life tycoonery...
...often deposited in the wrong room. The food looks delicious, at least at first; but now, even the reporters chasing Humphrey blanch at the sight of yet another dinner steak. Newsmen with Johnson get steak for breakfast-and Bloody Marys before breakfast if they desire. In the affluent society, the rubber chicken of the banquet circuit has been replaced by the rich diet of the campaign...
Where does the money come from? Increasingly indulgent-and affluent-parents have steadily raised allowances, which now average $6 a week for boys, $4 for girls. But the allowance is just the beginning; it is almost always supplemented by "emergency loans," money for clothing and extras and gifts. Beyond that 272,000 teen-age boys and 220,000 girls work fulltime, averaging $2,221 and $2,933 respectively a year. Even for those still in school, work has become the style: 35% of the boys and 22% of the girls hold year-round part-time jobs, and more than half...
Regretfully reporting the disappearance of such "teacher-scholars," Riesman viewed with some unhappiness the entangling growth of specialization on both the student and faculty levels. "One could make a nice study of the lengthening amount of time spent at conventions as the [academic] guilds grow larger and more affluent and need to have more time for papers," he noted...
...immune have the members of this affluent society become to the nuclear concept that in recent years, the danger of a holocaust has turned into a comfortable, abstract improbability. Your cover article [Sept. 25] may awaken the minds of those who have let partisanship rise above an awesome problem. The nuclear issue has turned into a maze of contradictions and evasions, thanks to those who have thrown it where it should have never been in the first place: in politics...