Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside, the soldiers, all in baggy, bright khaki pants and tunics with red collar tabs, practice the arts of war. There are no ranks in the Chinese army, or at least none are worn on uniforms. All dress the same, from division commanders to privates. The officers of each company live with their men and "even our division commander must spend time each year in the company as an ordinary soldier. Every soldier knows immediately who is the superior, including the division and regimental commanders...
Only two per cent of the Class of 1971 said they wanted blue-collar jobs. Several, however, expected to earn a living in sports fields, including two who expected to sign professional baseball contracts and a professed ski bum. Other students expected to work in harpsichord building, stained glass work, the Boston City Countil, housepainting, and "random employment to pay off Harvard debts...
...think ties should be abolished -only the requirement that all men wear them. Men should have the privilege of free choice, such as wearing a tie, a turtleneck or an open collar...
More important, there is an abiding though cautious sense of fairness in blue-collar workers which emerges if one can just clear away the ideological rubric. Unlike many of the people holding positions of power, who feel they must view others at a distance which they think befits their stature, most workers prefer to deal strictly on a man-to-man basis. A demanding but even handed code of friendship prevails. A mainland Chinese appearing in their midst would be treated no differently than any other man if they could only see he was a man, and not just...
...Shore town of Locust Valley, which has expensive homes and relatively few of them, taxes itself at a rate of $22.70 per $1,000 of its property's market value. That raises enough money to provide $1,722 for each child. Ten miles away, Levittown's blue-collar citizens pay school taxes of $35.60 per $1,000, but because Levittown is more densely populated and its property values are lower, these taxes generate only $955 per child. The gap can become even greater when a prosperous community attracts some industry that adds revenue without increasing the number...