Word: middleclass
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...just after dark when over a hundred plainclothes police moved into a quiet, middleclass, residential neighborhood of Milan last week. Squad cars crept inconspicuously into position to seal off a block-long stretch of the Via Negroli. Armed carabinieri stationed themselves behind parked cars and in the courtyard of the apartment buildhig at No. 30. Their prey: Corrado Alunni, 30, one of the ringleaders in the Red Brigades kidnaping and assassination of Christian Democratic Party Leader Aldo Moro last spring...
...earlier novels, Berger proved himself a fine minor portraitist of the hapless, tough-talking American male: the middleclass, victimized hero of the Reinhart trilogy, the used-car salesmen and small-time gangsters in Sneaky People. Little Big Man, his burlesque epic of the wild West, and Who Is Teddy Villanova?, a brilliant imitation of the private-eye novel, displayed a notable talent for satire...
...poverty brings with it crime, as it always does. A middle class neighborhood with its attractive targets, bordering on a poor one will attract criminals, and the margin between the poor and crime-ridden neighborhood and the sate, middleclass one will gradually shift. The poverty and crime advances, crushing everything in its patn. The middle class liberal knows poverty breeds crime, but he remembers his own poor-but-honest background and begins to associate the crime with the black race. Of course he is quick to point out that "not all blacks are bad. There are good and bad blacks...
...Middleclass Americans are now more inward-looking and concerned with the quality of life, less determined to get ahead by moving to new jobs and new towns...
Silverman is probably the first network programmer who grew up laughing ?and crying?at TV. Since his father was a television repairman, his family started sitting around the tube earlier than most. After high school in Rego Park, a middleclass, largely Jewish neighborhood 20 minutes by subway from Manhattan, Freddie went to Syracuse University in upstate New York. He majored in broadcasting at Syracuse's School of Speech and Dramatic Arts and then went to graduate school at Ohio State. In 1959, with what now seems like inspired prescience, he wrote his master's thesis on ABC. "The phrase...