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Economics: Discomfort in that stratum of society which is over endowed and underproductive...
...James Goffs belong neither to the Old Guard nor to the flashy new set but to a special stratum in between, a sort of nouveau niche. Mr. Goff is a lawyer, Mrs. Goff his first wife. Instead of an old-style town house or suburban estate, they have a wood-paneled-duplex city apartment. Like Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Goff, 33, is partial to Chanel, makes do at local shops and "the boutiques in New York, when it works out" between annual trips to Europe...
...larger amounts of cash in pocket. Seeking a way to describe the shifting patterns of the consumer, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank recently decided that he has gone through three spending tiers and is now in the midst of a fourth. The bank called it the "life-enriching stratum." The average consumer would probably be content just to say that things are very good indeed...
This is the kind of thing Nikita's rivals in Red China watch with growing suspicion. As Peking put it in its latest blast, a 24,000-word article in People's Daily: "A privileged bourgeois stratum has emerged in Soviet society." In fact, Khrushchev's "phony Communism" is restoring the "forces of capitalism" and substituting for the class struggle "the struggle for a good dish of goulash." It is the "Communism of the American way of life, and Communism seeking credits from the devil...
Warrior Hair. A strong woman with battlement bones and swept-back warrior hair, Anna was born in London in 1911. Her family was a conservative phalanx of British army officers. In that stratum, "you resigned the regiment if you wanted to marry an actress," she says. No one wanted an actress daughter either, so Anna was trained as a serious musician. She did not turn to comedy and show business until...