Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worry about the excesses of plot. A.L. Levine is what this book is all about, and Halberstam's hero rises to beat back any challenge. Levine is a marvelously charming character: a poor Jewish orphan who works his way up from the seediness of the Bronx to the sweaty good times of a travelling salesman in the South, onward into the cushy, three-piece suited life of a millionaire real-estate developer and Democratic Party kingmaker, stopping off in countless bedrooms at every chance. Weaving together flashbacks and scenes from Levine's suddenly conceived campaign for the Presidency, Halberstam chronicles...
...prayer is that the new Pope identifies with the poor and oppressed of the world, so that future covers of TIME symbolizing the office will show a simple wooden cross-such as Bishop Dom Helder Câmara wears-indicating a papacy that enters into the suffering of others...
...just retired from her profession in order to raise a family. Before TIME arrived, we thought of ourselves as a more or less average middle-income family. How future shocking it was to learn that we had given up our membership in the new elite and joined the new poor before we realized either existed...
...even though the 1974 statute mandating care by physicians had been passed primarily to protect women from quacks. Obstetrician Nicholas Kafoglis, who served as a state representative when the general assembly passed the law, testified at Pitchford's trial, "I think this was no crime; it was very poor judgment...
...those at the oppo site end of the social spectrum. His sympathy for the wretched of the earth was visceral. But he had undisguised patrician contempt for the middle class, those who hankered after comforts he took for granted and who felt threatened by the prospect of militant poor. Significantly, Kennedy's most bitter political enemies were men, like L.B.J., who had scrambled up from poor or straitened childhoods...