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...surging crowds in the frayed streets of old industrial cities, the "jumpers and screamers" along the motorcade route, may be the most intensely revealing history of this collection. Kennedy would later recall how the people pressing around him at street level were wildly supportive, while some white-collar workers high up in the buildings above were making obscene gestures at him. He knew he had to win it down below, and Lowe was there...
...He’s a great guy for the locker room, the kind of kid we need on our team,” said assistant captain and blockmate Tyler Kolarik. “Just a blue-collar...
RICHARD: Talk about stupid things around your neck, what is that? [Thompson is wearing a fur collar...
...remarkably rare. One Notre Dame fan chalked it up to the “better class of people” that attended said game. “This is a top-notch college,” he commented, “it’s not really the blue-collar crowd that goes to an NFL game or something...
These are of course long overdue thanks for a group of public servants who, maybe because they are blue-collar workers who don’t necessarily have big salaries or college degrees, don’t get the respect they deserve. It is a sentiment that has come from the top down in American civic life, as politicians like President Bush quickly jumped on the praise bandwagon for police and firefighters. Yet in a move not uncharacteristic of U.S. politicians in general and the Bush administration in particular, the “common” men and women...