Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics may be tempted to dismiss Midcentury as a piece of biological conservatism brought on by the author's 66 years. Yet Dos Passos also still tilts at the U.S. commercial spirit. In pages dotted with ad slogans, he even achieves a kind of running parody of the affluent society, e.g., "KEEPS A MAN so ODOR-FREE A BLOODHOUND COULDN'T FIND HIM," "DON'T BE A DISHWASHER. BUY ONE," "IF YOU KNOW THE WOMAN WHO SHOULD HAVE THIS...
...Britain's Voluntary Service Overseas, launched two years ago by Alec Dickson, 44, a longtime UNESCO social worker who saw a way to tap the energy and drive of young Englishmen. "People want to feel needed," says he, "but it's hard to get this feeling in affluent Western societies. You can't find it in Piccadilly or Times Square...
John K. Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, will give a public lecture tonight on "Education in the Affluent Society" at 8 p.m. In Sanders Theatre. The lecture date was moved up two days at Galbraith's request because he is awaiting word of his appointment as Ambassador to India by President Kennedy...
...whose "containment" policies made him persona non grata to the Dulles-era State Department, will step out of seven years of political exile and go to Yugoslavia-if, as expected, Marshal Tito will accept him. Already packing his bags for India is Harvard Economist John Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society. He will replace Ellsworth Bunker, who, as an able diplomat and devoted Democrat, is in line for another top ambassadorship, most likely to Brazil...
Suggested by a story in TIME (April 13, 1959), Where the Boys Are describes one of the more frantic phenomena of the affluent society: the annual Spring-Ding or Florida Flip of the book-bashed, sun-starved North American undergraduate. Come Easter vacation, students from all over the Northeast and Midwest pile into anything that holds gas and roar south. In recent years, more than 20,000 of these "migratory shirkers" have settled for the two-week season in Fort Lauderdale, and there the camera finds them-soaking up sun and beer, sleeping twelve to a motel cell...