Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LOTSA LUCK. NBC. Monday, 8-8:30 p.m. E.D.T. Archie Bunker has spawned a whole blue-collar barrelful of hopeful imitators, but this one has scraped the bottom. In yet another American translation of an English television comedy, Dom DeLuise is a former bus driver who now mans his company's lost and found department. Whatever he gives at the office, he spends most of his time at home exchanging nastiness with his family of carping harpies. The biggest household joke seems to be the sexual inability of his sullen and slovenly brother-in-law Arthur, although last week...
...were hired as operators, filling 17% of the openings (the company's goal was 10%). Some possible explanations: many men as well as women may prefer the relative comfort of tedious indoor work to the rigors of outside jobs, and many men may still consider white-collar work more socially prestigious than better-paying blue-collar jobs...
Those in power in Cambridge resist change. Students and young people are prevented or discouraged from registering to vote. Old-time politicians exploit class prejudices to keep "Brattle Street" and blue collar residents from working together for reform. The universities by their real estate policies have slowed the growth of a stable, politically conscious community in Cambridgeport and Riverside...
...running because I believe my election could bring a new constituency into the reform coalition in Cambridge and provide the crucial fifth reform vote on the City Council. Blue collar residents of the city are tired of inaction in City Hall. They have become aware of the issues and want results...
...member of organized labor, and I have walked my share of picket lines. My involvement in the community is total and is a matter of record. I believe that many blue collar citizens think as I do, and their participation will make a strong and healthy reform coalition in Cambridge...