Word: strata
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said, in brief, that one of this country's biggest problems is that it survives on a diet of a handful of artists and two hundred million television sets. The increasing mechanization of society, he asserted, has engendered a sense of creative sterility (but surely not impotence) through all strata of comfortable America...
Harrington called for a coalition of the working class, the minorities and the poor, and the "new strata," such as youth, to defeat President Nixon. "The defeat of Richard Nixon is not a guarantee of social blessedness but it is certainly a precondition," he said...
...Ruth Brine is an Uncle Tom of the female s"x [Essay, July 26]. It is easy to find fault with any movement. In criticizing a handful of already "liberated" authors for too much "consciousness raising," she missed the whole point: until men and women in all strata of American society, not just the elite leadership, learn that human potential extends beyond sexual roles, then precious little will be accomplished...
...point is that over time, a longish period of time, the profession and those who observe the court closely, are persuaded that this bunch of people isn't using its head, that they are motivated much more politically. That opinion by the experts will eventually pervade other strata of opinion -and then the court's authority will be badly undermined...
However, as is indicated by the prevalence of dissatisfaction throughout all strata of society, only a small minority of people have discovered this vital sense of purpose. The rest are in a state of drift in which they whirl in a gyre of idle pleasures, mistaking each new sensation as the incarnation of true happiness. "But pleasure is just the shadow of happiness." Ali said, for it fails to incorporate "the very secret of life, the desire to achieve something...