Word: nouveaux
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...they are happy, it seems almost an axiom that the rapidly rich fritter few hours frivolously. They mostly abhor time-consuming activities like heading Kiwanis drives, playing golf, drinking till dawn, and being sick in bed. Though they often complain about their limited playtime, almost all the nouveaux share a drive to accumulate assets beyond any expectation of liquidating the lucre...
...cities. In Paris, young leftists paraded through a pelting rain. "Down with the army!" they chanted, until they joined up with some inhospitable union members at the Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville. A window broke, fists flew, and the chant quickly changed to "Oh, les nouveaux flics [Oh, the new cops]!" In Milan, young people marched under banners that spelled out what they regard as Italy's current evils: IMPERIALISM, FASCISM, CAPITALIST OPPRESSORS...
...suburbs have proved to be a worthy foil. They are full of nouveaux riches because the country is newly rich. The size of the average car has doubled in ten years; powerboats on trailers choke carports. There are sculptured gnomes on lawns, and almost every front door has a "feature" such as a horseshoe knocker or a flock of stained-glass ducks in flight...
...does. And the incident illustrates Martha Mitchell's virulent case of Potomac Fever, a malady to which few top-and middle-echelon Washington wives are immune?whether they be Watergate nouveaux, Georgetown chic, or Cleveland Park intellectual elbow-patch...
...many others, the harvest of ''the golden years" is neglect, isolation, anomie and despair. One of every four Americans 65 or over lives at or below "the poverty line." Some of these 5,000,000 old people were poor to begin with, but most are bewildered and bitter nouveaux pauvres, their savings and fixed incomes devoured by spiraling property taxes and other forms of inflation. More than 2,000,000 of them subsist on Social Security alone...