Word: affluents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...revolution beyond the Dizziest dreams of reform. A new formula for Britain's cost-of-living index, released last week by the Ministry of Labor, shows that modern Britain is One Nation. The 330 items whose costs comprise the index demonstrate that the working class is now an affluent society...
...afford to do a lot of widening. Their economies have now become so robust-thanks in large part to $50 billion in U.S. aid during the postwar era-that they can comfortably scrap many anachronistic tariffs, quotas and excise taxes against U.S. imports. Equally important, the foreigners-notably the affluent French and Germans-could well afford to step up greatly their own foreign aid and thereby take some of the financial burden of the underdeveloped countries...
...faith in peaceful coexistence. Khrushchev is inextricably committed to butter as well as guns, sirloin as well as sputniks. He has long since staked his political survival on raising Russian living standards, and last week even declared approvingly that Marxism-Leninism, like U.S. capitalism, will eventually lead to the "affluent" society.* Diehard Stalinists, notably China's leaders, deplore Khrushchev's emphasis on material comforts-in his own words, "presenting Communism as a table groaning with tasty dishes." But, reasoned Nikita Khrushchev, "the preaching of equality in the spirit of the early Christian communes, with their low standard...
Most beatniks despise money, work, the "creeping meatballism" of life in an affluent society. They prefer to wear beards and blue jeans, avoid soap and water, live in dingy tenements or, weather permitting, take to the road as holy hoboes, pilgrims to nowhere. Most of them adore Negroes, junkies, jazzmen and Zen. The more extreme profess to smoke pot, eat peyote, sniff heroin, practice perversion. They are, in short, bohemians; the squalor of their lives is reflected in their verse...
...days are long past when the party could exact direct cultural tribute from the U.S. intelligentsia, when anti-Communist writers found it hard to get their books reviewed in the intellectual weeklies. To those much under 45 in the affluent society of today, the Thirties' preoccupation with class struggle and "social realism" must seem as odd as the 19th century's fondness for collected sermons or the debates of medieval theologians...