Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Begin to Billy, the American audience for a year has cheered or booed the spotlighted drama of the moment. But there is evidence that beneath it all, the political concern seems to be coming back to basics-taxes...
...Friday night, as the weekend was beginning, the chief teller-standing in a cage behind a series of locked and guarded doors in the vault area two floors beneath ground level-had counted the money. It was resting on cart T-12, and the bundles of cash added up to $4 million. He wheeled the cart through another heavy door into the main vault. At the end of work on Tuesday, after the bank had reopened, the chief teller counted the money again. This time the tally was $3 million...
Tender, sensitive and deep, Elgin is repulsed by his college friends and their flippant attitude towards love and sex. Convinced that debasing bed-hopping is not the only alternative, the handsome soccer player turns down myriad opportunities to jump beneath the covers with sexy partners in order to save himself for something of a purer, more aesthetic...
...weeks ago, Newsweek magazine ran a photographic "who's who" that resembled nothing if not a mug-shot line-up of the intellectual ringleaders of this drive to turn back the progressive, egalitarian tide. "There's no new right," Georgia State Sen. Julian Bond is quoted as saying directly beneath this assemblage of snap-shots. "There's a new left of unbelievably queasy liberals...
...while some may sincerely believe in it, is merely a disguise for the conservatism of the economically insecure and the politically opportunistic. It develops when groups, especially the petit bourgeois groups which have achieved a tenuous hold on the lower steps of the good life, feel threatened by those beneath them who are clamoring for a place on the ladder. Politically, it provides a base for charlatans who, lacking all sense of human deceny or commitment to the common good, would place their own personal advancement by means of the monopoly of their own little ethnic turn above the harmony...