Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young People. The N.P.D. finds support largely among farmers, lower-middle-class burghers, blue-collar workers, the military and, surprisingly, some young people, mostly high school graduates. Sociologist Erwin Scheuch of the University of Cologne describes N.P.D. sympathizers as "society's relative losers, members of an affluent society who are, relatively speaking, not prospering enough." Less gently, Kiesinger describes them as "the peripheral beings -the malcontents and the moaners who somehow cannot come to terms with the world." To be sure, Von Thadden appeals to those with overpowering personal frustrations. But he also aims at a far wider audience...
...innocence is moving lower, into junior high schools and occasional grade schools, where youngsters seeking ersatz maturity even gulp codeine-laden cough medicine. (Glue sniffing is expected to decline as word gets out that the largest maker of model-airplane glue is adding sickening mustard fumes to its product's aroma.) Washington's District of Columbia Addiction Center has uncovered pot users as young as eight years...
MARIJUANA is also usually classed as hallucinogenic; its effects range from reddened eyes and relaxation to changed perception. It is not an aphrodisiac, but it can lower inhibitions and intensify sexual pleasure. It seems to make many users temporarily passive, in contrast to alcohol, which frequently releases aggression. "Everyone knows about barroom brawls," says Oakland, California Psychiatrist and Drug Researcher Tod Mikuriya, "but have you ever heard of a pot-room brawl?" Of course, it can be argued that there are worse things than barroom brawls...
...seniority based on race. Nepotism, though on the wane today, has long been the principal way to gain admission to scores of union locals. Notably in craft unions, organized labor does not discriminate just against Negroes; it discriminates against almost everybody by trying to keep the labor pool lower than the number of available jobs...
...modern city. The city appears as all-American as any medium-sized integrated city in the nation. The whites are moving to suburbia-toward Chesterfield and Ashland in the north and west-while the blacks are coming into the city seeking work from the nearby Southside. The lower middle-class whites resent the blacks, but can do little about it except vote for "law and order." Highways also are cutting through the black gheto forcing blacks areas and adding to the problem...