Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Middle-Income. The Munson family of Geneva, 111.-Judy, 27, Lester Jr., 28, and two sons aged nine weeks and 20 months-spends its income of about $16,000 on things that older people might consider luxuries but that the Munsons regard as necessities. They have greatly increased their living standards in the four years since they married. Munson is an associate in his father's law firm, and last September the family moved from a Chicago apartment to a $32,500 house in the exurbs...
Considering the sad record of the past, the idea of a good German ballet troupe might seem as implausible as a Nepalese surfing club. Times have definitely changed. Not long after the curtain lifted at the American debut of the Stuttgart Ballet last week, the audience at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House was cheering in disbelief at the light-as-air elegance of a pack of young gazelles from the edge of the Black Forest...
...only a matter of time before someone designs a thin, 9-in. by 6-in. portable TV set that opens like a book. Since 90% of all contemporary writers of fiction can do little more with language than concoct dialogue and make wordy pictures, Televolume might benefit writer and reader alike. Novels that normally take six to eight hours to read could be transformed into two hours of viewing simply by eliminating the need to read descriptions of aquiline noses, snowy breasts, silken haunches, the interminable lighting of cigarettes, pouring of drinks and brewing of coffee. Once liberated from...
Middle-Class Minefield. Since he is already in possession of everything he can think of that he might want, Mr. Bridge considers himself happy. He has a Lincoln and a Chrysler, a country-club membership and the best Negro cook in town. He has an array of stocks and bonds (which he contemplates at intervals in the basement of Virgil Barren's bank). Still, mysteriously and unfairly, his normal existence seems filled with threats. Waiters "take advantage of people every chance they get." Negroes unreasonably wish to be regarded as fellow human beings. Jews violate standards of business practice...
...this, Bridge keeps being asked to commit himself emotionally. Almost by reflex, he tries to reach his children, but his gestures end in general embarrassment. Though he loves his wife, he can think of nothing appropriate that might convey that fact except a new car and some shares of Kansas City Power & Light. Determined to retain his dignity, he moves carefully through the sunny meadow of middle-class affluence as through a dangerous minefield...