Word: middleclass
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...politician's door, Café Filho has conspicuously neglected to get rich. At 55, he has no savings to speak of. no income except his salary.* Instead of moving into the ornate presidential suite in Catete Palace, he continues to live, as he has since 1944, in a middleclass, three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Avenue. Three bedrooms are none too many: the President, his wife Jandira and their only son Eduardo, 11, share the place with Jan-dira's mother and sister, both widows...
...prisons, bad laws and the bad byproducts of the Industrial Revolution. With Bernard Shaw, Johnson insists that this makes Dickens a social revolutionary. Lenin, for one, did not agree and once stomped out of a dramatization of The Cricket on the Hearth, because he could not stomach Dickens' "middleclass sentimentality." It is probably true to say, as other critics have, that Dickens had an alert social conscience; he knew what he was against, but he never knew quite what he was for-except the underdog...
...nervous, Don of crudities; Don clerical, Don ordinary, Don self-absorbed and solitary; Don here-and-there, Don epileptic; Don puffed and empty, Don dyspeptic; Don middleclass, Don sycophantic, Don dull, Don brutish, Don pedantic; Don hypocritical, Don bad, Don furtive, Don three-quarters mad; Don (since a man must make an end), Don that shall never be my friend...
...find out what actually happens in marriages between people of different faiths, Sociology Professor Murray H. Leiffer of the Methodist Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Ill. conducted a survey in a "middleclass, densely occupied community in a large American city." His findings, published in the Christian Century, make a more detailed warning to young lovers...
...sense of power and glory that was Britain and might be Britain still is not in these men. They seem too humble even for middleclass, easygoing Scarborough, and much too modest for its Grand Hotel. Yet these modest men indubitably believe themselves the architects of a greater Britain, followers of a loftier vision than Pitt or Disraeli or Churchill...