Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Munich's Eve bar, where the B-girls are affluent and fat businessmen roar like jungle cats, there is always something special for the sex-exotic eye. Maybe a dark-tressed Parisian stripper, full-bodied and beautiful, mounted on a prancing white horse. Or a trainer, three tigers and one notable nude, all together in a cage...
...solve the problems of poverty in these areas, it will be necessary to see that children there get the best possible education. The federal government must provide special schools and a corps of highly paid good teachers to bring educational standards there up to those of the most affluent suburbs, Galbraith said. Such projects cannot be financed locally because sufficient funds do not exist where they are needed most...
...Mayflower Hotel, addressing a liberal group called the National Committee on Pockets of Poverty, Economist-Author John Kenneth Galbraith (The Affluent Society) raked his fellow New Frontiersmen over the coals for opting to stay on with Johnson, whom he considers something less than forward-looking. Said Galbraith, a former ambassador to India who returned to Harvard before Kennedy's death: "To those who feel that they best serve by endowing the scene with their presence rather than by pursuing their convictions, let me simply say that I agree it is a good life. But also a bit like being...
...Today, there are nearly 2,000 preserves in the U.S.-most of them open to anybody with a box of shells and a handful of greenbacks. Some are nothing more than dusty, played-out farms, stocked with a few pheasants and partridges. Others cater to the whims of an affluent society...
...duties--and role--to give speeches to University students, to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and to the Organizations of American States. When lecturing around the country, Stevenson is more than an apologist for our status quo; he challenges the meaning of freedom in an affluent society he describes a world community where our best interests are served by our contribution to the welfare of others. But these speeches hardly serve to recapture Stevenson's image. The message of the U.N. addresses is too clear...