Word: richer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proved in Klute, Pakula has a restless eye for the banalities of daily life that gives the picture a richer texture than is usual in this genre. Early on, the film offers some promise. There is a brisk barroom brawl and a short car chase that is more smartly handled than these maneuvers usually are. But there is no way to build an overparanoid thriller or to provide a satisfactory ending. If the hero can break the conspiracy unaided, it cannot be much of a conspiracy. If, on the other hand, the conspiracy is all powerful, then the audience...
...possibly compare the advantage of a freshman student living in an integrated community with the advantage of the fact that a student, who could not go here before, can now go here because a richer institution is paying for her?" Constable said...
...Without agrarian reform, the almost inhuman misery of the rural workers will persist," he has said. "Without banking reform, little will be done for the development of the country, and without fiscal reform, the rich will continue to grow richer while the poor will continue to suffer...
...that education has alienated everyone in the family, all of them, rather than enhancing their lives . . . thus the impulse of one's parents was ambiguous. They said they wanted you to have a better life, but what they really meant was they wanted you to be better off. Richer. More immune to life...
Nickerson was not born into wealth. His grandfather had been a successful businessman, but was destroyed in the Panic of 1893, and died as a result of it. In his richer days, he had built a castle in Dedham modeled on one he had seen on the Rhine in Germany...