Word: middleclass
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...department store; Frank Schiffer, a owner of theatres all over Harlem; and Irving Altman, a retired banker--are on the board of directors. These men may not explicitly oppose the advancement of Harlem, but they are bound to support conservative stands on social issues or to advocate neutrality. As middleclass whites, they are inclined to conservatism where they are involved in final decision-making...
...what's bad about organized labor is bad for the U.S. And organized labor today is afflicted by a multitude of problems, some glaring, some subtle, and virtually all springing from failures to keep pace with change. For one thing, the labor movement is middle-aged and increasingly middleclass, powerful and sometimes arrogant, but without the lean, hungry and imaginative leaders of the past. For another, unions are faced with a new industrial revolution in automation, which promises to alter the very role and function of human labor...
...always a fragile and insecure state of mind. In 1871, Bismarck belatedly forged German unity under Prussian hegemony from the anachronism of myriad principalities, but he sent Germany marching into the 20th century as little more than a feudal relic in modern dress. German society never experienced a nationalist, middleclass, democratic revolution or evolution comparable to those of France or Britain. The last and only real German revolution was Luther's Reformation...
...should have a composite title such as The Sporting Life of the Long-Distance Runner who All in Good Time found a Taste of Honey in an L-Shaped Room at the Top on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. More than familiar to U.S. film and playgoers nowadays is middleclass, industrial England: the rows on rows of red brick prison houses, the suffocating parochialism, the intellectual sterility, the emotional desiccation, the measuring out of life in tepid teacups, the apotheosis of fornication as the only salvation. The milieu has become predictable and precariously close to a bore. One knows...
...tacky at least 100 times at a Manhattan dinner party last week. A realty firm in Berkeley has a blurb claiming that it sells "distinguished houses, not ticky tacky." After hearing the song, a professor at the University of Miami said: "I've been lecturing my classes about middleclass conformity for a whole semester. Here's a song that says it all in 1½ minutes...