Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Douglas noted that the Russian standard of living, although lower than America's, makes it "a member of the affluent society" and "a symbol of revolt against the status quo" to the countries of the Middle East and Africa...
...search of Lebensraum with a view, affluent West Germans in the past few years have swarmed across Europe on the biggest Iand-buying spree in their history. Germans have become Europe's heaviest buyers of vacation homes in virtually every bracket, ranging from a department store tycoon's $1,000,000 pleasure dome on Cap d'Antibes to $1,500 cottages on the Mediterranean that are advertised as "your own castle in Spain." Though the stock market and their economy have leveled off, West German entrepreneurs are going ahead with plans to build new homes and hotels...
Trito Travelogue. To U.S. critics, Winter, an allegory of the affluent society, seemed only a thin, high-pitched echo of the early and genuine social protest that filled The Grapes of Wrath. The judges' decision was also reportedly influenced by Steinbeck's latest, bestselling Travels with Charley, which manages to recapture the banality, mawkish sentiment and pseudo philosophy that have marked Steinbeck at his worst...
...affluent lawyer, Barnett clung to his boyhood ambition to achieve public office. In 1951, without bothering to serve a political apprenticeship, he plunged in as a candidate in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. He lost, tried and lost again in 1955, finally won in 1959. The secret of his success: as the most outspoken racist among all Mississippi's segregationist politicians, Barnett won the support of the state's powerful white Citizens' Councils. Most Mississippi politicians refer to Negroes as "niggras" in public speeches; Barnett unfailingly called them "niggers," drew cheers, chuckles -and votes-from rural audiences...
...centuries, a jumping ritual known as the zaar has been used to drive away djinn, or evil spirits, by Egyptian witch doctors. At a typical zaar, affluent customers are ordered to bring such items as sheep and goats for sacrifices; humbler offerings of fish and fowl may be demanded of the poor, but the witch doctors always come out ahead. After the djinn-soaked customer is isolated for a week, the witch doctor bursts into his room with a band composed of drum-beaters and female vocalists whose job is to shriek. The zaar goes...