Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presents: White Collar America. NBC examines the life of America's office workers and probably concludes what we all know: that such work usually involves either cut-throat competition or stifling boredom. Still this is probably worth watching. NBC documentaries are usually meticulously researched and well reported. Ch. 4, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
...think this logic made sense. As election analysts Scammon and Wattenberg have noted, the "social issue" was particularly powerful in 1970. Many working class whites--who had real doubts about our activities in Indochina--ended up supporting hawkish candidates because of their displeasure with student disruptions. If the blue collar workers in New York City knew what James Buckley stood for in the 1970 Senate election, he never would have gotten 65 per cent of the Catholic vote. A number of liberals, like Adlai Stevenson III in Illinois, had to swing sharply to the right in order not to risk...
...imagination of the community. A woman I know from the neighborhood stopped spending evenings with Cambridge friends for fear of walking alone the 50 yards from the trolley to her house on the return trip. That memories of these assaults should linger in this neighborhood of mostly white-collar workers and students is understandable; in a neighborhood so transient that the entire population probably changes every couple of years, there are few reliable neighbors to call, few reassuringly recognizable faces to assuage the fears of violence...
...sell anywhere," market researchers are fond of saying about an area where all kinds of products are routinely tested, from Lipton's soup to Cornnuts. In many ways, the district is a cross section of the U.S., with a varied mix of incomes and ethnic groups, a blue-collar class that is suffering from increasing unemployment and a not-so-silent majority that is outraged by inflation, long lines at gasoline stations and scandal in Washington. Seizing on this unrest, the Democrats made the election a referendum on President Nixon...
...Boston, and found themselves stuck at the bottom of the economic ladder. The Irish and the Italians were distinctly less upwardly mobile than other immigrant groups. On the other hand, 75 per cent of all second-generation Russian-Americans--many of whom were Jewish--finished their careers in white collar jobs...