Word: riches
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...urged the well to do to "assist the reduced fellow by teaching him a trade or putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood." Queen Elizabeth I came to believe that care of the poor is not the duty of just the rich or the church but also of the state. "Paupers are everywhere!" she cried after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness was the real sin-which in the U.S. developed into the Puritan ethic that...
Compared with the 19th century poor so bitingly described in literature-Zola's Gervaise "was quite willing to dispute with a dog for a bone"-the American poor are well off. They would be considered rich by most Red Chinese, whose per capita annual income averages $70. In southern Italy and Sicily, thousands of nullatenenti (havenots) live in caves or open trenches. Poverty is too soft a word to describe the puffed stomachs that are common sights in India, Africa and Brazil's northeast. On the other hand, Scandinavia knows nothing like American slums, and Soviet Russia...
...Société des Bains de Mer, an Edwardian sprawl of properties that includes the casino, the yacht club, the 60-year-old Hótel de Paris and about one-third of Monaco's 375 acres. Bien, thought Rainier, Ari will also bring in his rich friends, make the roulette wheels spin as they used to before the war-and use the S.B.M.'s reserves to build some nice sandy beaches, which Monaco badly needs in the bikini era. Unfortunately, Onassis disapproves of gambling, prefers to sunbathe on his 325-ft. yacht and thinks the S.B.M...
...will be another rewarding model year. G.M.'s Donner and President James Roche predict industrywide sales of about 9,000,000 U.S.-made cars. There are plenty of reasons for optimism: 6,000,000 old cars are due to be scrapped in the next twelve months, while the rich market of Americans aged 16 to 20 will bulge at 12.5 million. The typical family can certainly afford a new car-or two. In the past year, the nation's gross national product has increased 6.5%, personal income has jumped 7% and industrial production has climbed 8%. Their instincts...
...writing a trilogy; the first volume, The Americans: The Colonial Experience, won the Bancroft Prize. In it Boorstin protested what he considered an overemphasis on the European origins of American identity, went in search of the uniquely American in America. Now, in the second volume of this enormously rich and suggestive survey, he considers the period between the Revolution and the Civil War, and seeks to trace in the earliest records of the nation the traits that have dominated its later history...