Word: machinists
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...white machinist...
...with Hughes, Irving devoted himself to a life of semi-bohemian writing and wandering. The son of Cartoonist Jay Irving, who drew the comic strip Pottsy, Clifford Irving was born in New York City and graduated from Cornell in 1951. He traveled, took odd jobs -brush salesman in Syracuse, machinist's helper in Detroit-lived on a houseboat in Kashmir and taught creative writing at U.C.L.A...
...whose small devices for enduring life decently, no matter what, he deeply admires. In this book, for instance, Coles condenses talk and comment, going back as much as five years, with a handful of workingmen and their wives-a steam fitter, a policeman, a filling-station operator, a machinist, a fireman, a welder, a druggist and a bank-loan arranger, the only white-collar man in the group...
...move into cheap clapboard weekly rentals around gloomy Garvey Avenue, then land a job in one of the little machine shops. They stay a month or a year: some schools report a 100% annual student turnover. "I don't live here, I exist," says Earl Vetter, 43, a machinist recently arrived from the East. "As soon as I find something I can afford, I'm getting...
...major issues of the day, but any candidate who is perceived as purely a liberal or purely a conservative is relatively weak. Furthermore, the majority that resides in the center is "unyoung, unpoor, and unblack." The typical American voter is "the forty-seven-year-old wife of a machinist living in suburban Dayton, Ohio." Her major concern is what the authors call the Social Issue, "a set of public attitudes concerning the more frightening aspects of social change": crime, race riots, campus unrest, pornography, and moral permissiveness. But-and this is where the Administration misread the book...