Word: middleclass
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...were typical middleclass, sub urban, professional Americans who had made it. We were socially and politically involved. We had all the security one could ask for, and we were miserable. We had everything one could want materially, and we felt increasingly empty. We had all the latest in status symbols, and we discovered that the human elements were missing...
...letting Muldoon speak for him when he sputters: "Even if New England were to contribute more transcendentalists now, they too would be exactly like the produce from the rest of the nation: somehow Californian, hedonistic Pollyannas who betray in their every drug-scented utterance their own fundamentally middleclass, consumer's approach to the Great Questions...
...words are earnest and appropriate enough for the diminutive figure in the white dress on the stage of Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. Joyfully middleclass, fiftyish, a lady who likes fine clothes, Kathryn Kuhlman looks for all the world like dozens of the women in her audience. But hidden underneath the 1945 Shirley Temple hairdo is one of the most remarkable Christian charismatics in the U.S. She is, in fact, a veritable one-woman shrine of Lourdes. In each of her recent services-in Los Angeles, Toronto and her home base of Pittsburgh-miraculous cures seem to occur...
...away, the same depressing feeling moved Thales Elliott, a black Army veteran of 17 years who had lost both his legs in Viet Nam, to direct confrontation. Elliott, head of his P.T.A., was watching an antibusing demonstration at the black school across the street from his home in a middleclass, modern, black housing neighborhood. It was total-integration day, and seven protesting white parents stood at the base of the flagpole urging a boycott. "I just had enough," Elliott said. "So I put on my wooden legs, got in my car and drove over there." Facing the demonstrating whites...
...excoriates much about her middleclass, Irish-Catholic childhood in St. Paul: the strict parochial schooling, financial hardships, the attitudes of her neighbors. But nothing dominates her memory as do the personalities of her parents: a father who beat her and her sisters, then walked out on them when she was 14; a mother who found barriers to earning a living...