Word: hardhat
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...even truer of youngsters who still go straight from high school to work, war and marriage?certified adults at 18 or 19. To be sure, the children of blue-collar workers increasingly diverge from their parents over hair, dress and the use of pot, which is spreading in hardhat high schools. But politics is another matter: blue-collar children seem to be just as "conservative" as their parents...
...Curran is the ultimate hardhat: outraged, terrified, violent and more than a little envious, lashing out blindly at threatening forces that he only dimly comprehends. His furrowed brow puckers when he hears his son has bought a motorcycle; his jowls tremble with rage when his wife breaks the news that a "colored" family has moved into his lily-white Queens neighborhood. His basement is formidably stocked with World War II weaponry. His hatred is so raw, his ideas so primitive and naive, that he often radiates a genuinely amusing innocence. For all its funny moments, however, Joe is anything...
...report recommends an eleven-point program of tax relief, job retraining and adult education. To restore some of the laborer's lost mythos, it suggests that the Government might even issue postage stamps honoring various trades. The Administration denies that it will make any calculated appeal to hardhat militancy, insisting that the report "deals with all people in a certain economic status, regardless of race." But it is not lost on the White House that winning the hearts and votes of white workingmen and women will require more than a program of "benign neglect...
...dropped it or anything, I'd burn it as you're supposed to." Adds her husband Bill: "We've made the flag a sacred, spiritual kind of thing." Others are deeply unhappy about the furious ostentation or the denigration they see the flag enduring. One New York hardhat, Edward Polito, looked at the flag decals plastered on his coworkers' helmets and shook his head: "They should show the flag in their heart, not on their helmets." But he marched along with them anyway...
...seems unbelievable that a President who tells us that peaceful dissent is good can accept a "hardhat" award from the construction workers of New York in view of their recent bombardment of war protesters...