Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power of values that have been long instilled. When the working class man frets about his "high" taxes, he does not pause to worry about the loopholes by which the rich escape paying anything like a fair share because he is preoccupied instead with the thought that his money is being given out in some fraction to welfare recipients. He is more suspectible to the latter viewpoint because all his life he has been taught to believe that a man should work for himself to amass as much wealth as he can in ceaseless competition with everybody else...
...Ford Foundation is putting up the $25,000 needed, Sullivan said, commenting that the money would come from foundation president McGeorge Bundy's special expenditure fund...
...concrete imperatives that such an analysis implies for all of us as college students soon to be unleashed on the world derive from a single central principle: One should not set out to make as much money as possible. This means that each person must learn to set an objective limit on his future needs, and not get trapped in the cycle of continually increasing wants, the second car, the country home...
...shot the plane down--McGuire believes it crashed of natural causes, one might say--but one thing is sure; it was demolished. "The tail, that's the only thing you can see, sticking up in the jungle." Aboard were Augie Martin, a black American pilot earning a little extra money while on vacation from Seaboard World Airlines; Martin's wife Gladys, whom McGuire thinks had come along to gather material for an article on Biafra; Jess Meade, also an American; and a Rhodesian with the pseudonym of "Bill Brown." Mr. Martin's head was never found, McGuire says...
...particularly threatened these days by the forces of a changing world that they certainly never made, do not fully understand, and want no part of. Composed almost entirely of lower middle-class factory workers of Italian, Portuguese and Polish extraction, they view intellectuals with suspicion, students with scorn, and money with fear...