Word: middleclass
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...some of this is O.K., because middle-class democracy meant freedom for the middle classes but not for the lower classes. And it meant the destruction of the culture of the upper classes. So that from top to bottom, there's a kind of revulsion against middleclass, bourgeois industrialism...
...wish all my well-educated, middleclass, narrow-minded friends would read what Robert Coles has observed. Bravo for his intellectual curiosity! I must admit that this article opened my eyes; I will no longer indulge myself in pity for the poor of America. Better to have the strength of "soul" than a 1972 Caddie...
...Some middleclass, well-educated blacks are offended by the updated Amos 'n' Andy quality of Flip's material. Wilson's way of playing with the stereotypes, however, unselfconsciously holds them up to ridicule. Not even Archie Bunker could find much ammunition for bigotry in Flip's presentation of Geraldine (see box, page 59). If Flip is Amos 'n' Andy, he is Amos 'n' Andy in reverse shuffle-with 30 years of civil rights battles behind...
Nixon may sense that, with his contradictions, Brooke might make a fetching candidate. His Senate voting record rates an 88% approval from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action-higher even than Ted Kennedy's-yet he projects the image of a moderate. Cool, reflective, middleclass, he has been accused of being a NASP -the Negro equivalent of UP, the WASP...
...road government has pressed for legal reforms, stressed the principle of full employment and, according to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, given Austria the highest sustained growth rate (7.1% in 1970) of any developed country except Japan. That record has helped convince middleclass, small-farmer and white-collar groups that Kreisky's Socialists are not necessarily uncultured rogues who dash around expropriating the property of innocent industrialists. In fact, the first opposition group to issue a congratulatory statement of sorts after last week's victory was the Austrian Industrialists' Association...