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...United States was prosperous, and middle-class and professional people could be told that the working class was a figment of Communist propagandists' imaginations. In the 1930s, when large chunks of the middle class most writers came from and wrote for had joined most workers in protesting Depression hardship, opposing fascism and supporting the New Deal, many writers had moved Left. If they stayed there in the '50s they found themselves a little isolated and more alienated from their surroundings than they had been in the past. Many of them moved away from the political concerns they had grown...
...years ago that a young John Kennedy made his famous inaugural pledge: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Even then, that stirring pledge was unrealistic, as the nation was soon to learn in Indochina. But today such a commitment would be unthinkable, and not only because of the enormous social and economic costs it would entail. Slowly at first, then more rapidly, there has been an erosion...
...money; the student who wishes to "stop out" of college for a year to help finance his education; the bored pensioner who yearns to devote his training to something more than basking in the sun-all are likely to give up the job quest. None may suffer hardship, but all have lost some freedom of choice, and society may have lost something as well...
...break the monopoly of oil-producing nations? Of those interviewed, 41% favor an embargo on U.S. food sales to these countries, while 46% oppose the idea. An evenly divided number-44%-favor and oppose U.S. refusal to buy oil overseas, even if such a reduction means hardship at home. An overwhelming 81.% of respondents are opposed to any U.S. military takeover of the oilfields...
...equate the inhumane killing of prenatal babies by elective abortions with the alleged "untold hardship for thousands of unhappily pregnant women, who now find that although late abortions are technically legal in most states, few doctors are willing to perform them...