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...follow it up by saying that everything will be okay because. "No one can take himself altogether seriously io bell-bottoms." And moral outrage--however correct--summoned up upon convenience for its publicity value produces atrocities like the U.S. Government's current prosecution of the son of a blue-collar family for murdering civilians in Vietnam...
Says Karen Nussbaum, 31, a union official in Cleveland: "Organizing white-collar workers is now make or break for the trade-union movement." Inroads are being made by some unions, among white-and gray-collar workers in health care, teaching and government, which tend to offset the blue-collar losses...
...passionate convert. He has also grasped a central fact about new-wave fitness. America likes to think of itself as a young nation, yet its average age is already 30. Anxiety over that point, Simmons notes, is not confined to leisured matrons. The folks on food stamps and blue-collar men and women live with an unspoken fear of Wrinkle City. Says he: "People are scared of getting old. They believe they won't have a sex life, they believe they won't work, they believe they won't get any respect, they believe they...
...country runs and runs, from fear of death and pollution and old age as well as from longing for health, beauty and wellbeing. But what Americans will do with their revitalized corpora remains to be seen. Author Studs Terkel (Working) views the goings-on like a blue-collar Jeremiah. Says he: "Working on your body is narcissistic. It's basically a solo act. Narcissism comes when you're not connected to the rest of the world." By contrast, Dr. Dennis Colacino, director of the PepsiCo Fitness Programs, proclaims: "It gives people a better self-image. It helps...
...encourage this growing spirit of saving and restoring. Not only does the country sometimes seem caught in a sweet haze of nostalgia and playfulness, it also seems to be savoring its history on a small, even cozy scale. In Youngstown, Ohio, for example, in what appears to be one blue-collar community's search for identity, George Segal's life-size bronze of two steelworkers has been installed in a plaza; members of the building-trades union enhanced the artwork by erecting a real furnace as background...