Word: class
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LITTLE MURDERS takes place in an almost psychotic New York milieu of impending violence. The plot is to get the passive fiance to marry the all-American daughter of a middle-class family, but the point is social satire that brings treacherously light-hearted laughter, despite Jules Feiffer's attempt at the blackest of comedies...
...riots. Did the cameramen and commentators deliberately distort their reportage in favor of the protesters and against the police? In a postmortem, NBC News Chief Reuven Frank wrote that not just "the intellectuals and upper middle brows" had turned against TV, "but the basic American audience, the most middle-class majority in history...
...sides of what he calls a "counterculture" by which almost everyone under 30 has been affected. Like the poor urban black, this counter-culture is an alienated minority within the Affluent Society, even though it is made up primarily of the sons and daughters of the middle class. They have seen suburbia, found it wanting, and have uttered "the absolute refusal," as New Left Guru Herbert Marcuse calls it, to modern urban technology and the civilization it has produced. With surpassing ease and a cool sense of authority, the children of plenty have voiced an intention to live...
...just about every golfer not in the P.G.A. class soon learns, golf balls are deceptively fragile items. They are prone to chipping, cracking or denting when not stroked properly. Keeping an adequate supply on hand makes the game an expensive pastime. Now modern manufacturing techniques are taking away much of the strain. At least four firms, including the Faultless Rubber Co. of Ashland, Ohio, and the Chemold Corp. of Jamaica, N.Y., are making "solid-state" balls that are all but indestructible...
Even though they disclaim any thoughts of setting up a new class of conglomerates, insurers have so much cash to invest that their new tactics can have an enormous effect on the economy. Last year, life insurance companies alone had over $17 billion of new money to invest, or almost 14% of gross private investment. To investors who have been accustomed to getting only an interest return on loans, says Washington Economist Miles Colean, "an exposure to equities is like the taste of blood to a young lion." The insurance industry's new look may have an even greater...