Word: middleclass
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...dollar for dollar, the first book provided a lot more incontestable information. Any Woman Can! makes sense mostly as an overpriced, over-the-counter nostrum marketed to exploit whatever Women's Lib awareness has spread to the nation's largest day-to-day purchasing-power bloc-white, middleclass, heterosexual females...
...situation has been positive--clearly positive--in the last few years. Nonetheless, when you get into the business of building housing projects, as everybody knows, it is almost impossible to proceed without creating serious frictions with some group in the community. In one area, there is considerable opposition from middleclass, residents because we are constructing housing, or planning to construct housing, for low-income families. There are other areas in which the feeling is that we are not constructing good enough facilities and well situated enough facilities for low-income families. Even more difficult is the problem of providing housing...
...many Americans participate in group sex? Bartell puts the total at about 1,000,000. Most of his subjects, like the couples in the movie Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, were middleclass, "respectable" white suburbanites. They ranged in age from 18 to 70 and earned $10,000 or more a year. Of the men, 42% were salesmen, but some were dentists, professors, lawyers, engineers and chemists. Of the women, a few were teachers, but 78% were housewives who stayed home and looked after the children. Most of the parents sent the youngsters to Sunday school, frowned on drugs and hippies...
Pimps obviously have unconventional views on male-female relationships, but their material values are relentlessly middleclass. As Bruce put it: "A player is striving for the same things that a square is striving for-security, Utopia, annual income." The latter ranges from $25,000 to $50,000, out of which the pimp pays lawyers and bail bondsmen, buys food, cars, clothes, and sometimes drugs for himself and his stable. A communal apartment, with a pimp and several women living together, is one way of saving money, but Iceberg Slim had only scorn for that arrangement: "That...
...Critic Irving Howe, the book is "a farrago of blunders, distortions, vulgarities and plain nonsense," and its author is guilty of "historical reductionism," "crude simplification," "middleclass parochialism," "sexual monism," "methodological sloppiness," "arrogant ultimatism" and "comic ignorance." Howe's attack seemed certain to stir up an unholy war between the sexes. For it was directed against both the bible and the high priestess of the Women's Liberation movement: Sexual Politics and its author, Kate Millett...