Word: blue-collar
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...Africa are way down on the list. Despite the ravages of inflation, the median U.S. family's income rose in 1977, and 92 million Americans are now working, up from 86 million in November 1974. The hottest country-and-western hit is Johnny Paycheck's good-natured, blue-collar cry for the freedom to find work that satisfies as well as sustains: Take This Job and Shove...
...education"?still a luxury model, but smaller and presumably somewhat less costly to keep up. He must also restore harmony between faculty and administration, now deep in what Yale Historian Peter Gay claims is a "we and they" cold war, and calm town-gown tensions exacerbated by a blue-collar strike. He must also placate Old Blues disaffected partly by years of unvarnished rejection letters to their children...
...Welcome to the Working Week, the blue-collar drudge gets some droll sympathy...
Costello's underdog sympathies come easily. Born Declan Patrick McManus, he was the only child of a marriage that ended when his father, a jazz trumpeter and cabaret singer, hit the road for good. Costello grew up in a blue-collar section of London. At 18 he became a computer man in a nearby suburb. His first songs were composed to the whir of machines and the rumble of trains, and on weekends he scratched for pickup jobs as a guitarist...
...Yale historian Hajo Holborn, is an expert in European intellectual history who was educated at Bryn Mawr and Harvard. As acting head of Yale, she has slashed fearlessly at Yale's budget and also is weathering a bitter two-month strike by the university's 1,400 blue-collar workers. "She's head and shoulders over the other internal candidates," says one respected faculty member. Yet, he adds, "many of the Old Blues, on whom the university is dependent for much of its future funding, would never accept a woman as president...