Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is a truth that moderate and liberal leaders must recognize. Even so, it is equally true that the "underclass"-the blacks, the Mexican Americans and others-have even more reason to feel left out. They too are fed uo, with justice delayed and promises deferred-a fact that Cartoonist John Fischetti expressed in a drawing of an anonymous black imitating the President's "up to here" gesture. Yet viewed rationally, the long-range interests (if not the short-term problems) of the two sides coincide. The slums suffer more from crime and disorder than the suburbs, and blacks...
...spending for social programs and reduce the supply of money. One result is that interest rates have climbed to their highest levels in a century, spreading turmoil in the financial markets and discomfort in corporate board rooms. Businessmen gloomily foresee a slow year for profits. Consumers, despite their affluence, feel financially strapped and vexed to the point of outrage at the soaring prices they must pay for both the necessities and the luxuries of life. President Nixon says that an attack on inflation is his number one domestic priority. His economists, led by Chairman Paul McCracken of the Council...
Upper-Middle Income. The aptly named Costley family of Rockville, Md.-Nancy, 35, Wayne, 37, and five children aged five to ten-do not feel that they are going broke on $25,000 a year, but neither are they getting anywhere. Wayne, a vice president of Consultec, a management-consulting firm, earns $10,000 a year more than he did in 1964. "But even with steady increases in salary," he says, "I don't see any increase in buying power...
...study architecture. He has abandoned hopes of opening additional pizza shops because, unlike the heads of bigger businesses, he cannot raise money. Diane has dropped plans to enlarge their kitchen and add another room to the house because "it probably would cost something like $2,000." They do not feel that they can even protect themselves against illness by continuing Blue Cross coverage. "Six years ago, we paid $50 a quarter; now it's $95," says Diane. "We just had to cancel out and quit thinking about what will happen if one of us gets seriously sick...
Connell perceives the humor in Bridge's predicament, which is probably necessary: a good man is hard to stand. But his restrained tone of voice and inhumanly cool, cruel irony convey the impression of barely repressed personal rancor, such as a son might feel in trying to discuss his father. Perhaps this, and the fact that it is set in the 1930s, is what makes Mr. Bridge more than an objective caricature of the uptight WASP personality so often under attack today. What emerges is a muted image of an American type as pure, enduring and applicable as George...