Word: subclass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hispanic adults living in the U.S. today learned that language first. Arturo Villar, founder of Vista, and Alfredo Estrada, publisher of the upscale monthly Hispanic, argue that clinging to their native language holds Hispanics back. The effect of publishing in Spanish, Estrada says, "is to support a Spanish-speaking subclass that will always be flipping hamburgers for a living." Some news outlets try to appeal to the broadest audience by using both languages...
Drawings for the theater are usually felt to be in a subclass of their own. They are incomplete notes. Who could deduce from Hockney's brisk studies for the mechanical bird in Le Rossignol, for instance, the surprise of its actual intrusion on the stage of the Met, a blazing vermilion-and-gilt apparition in that gauzy, lyric ambiance of K'ang-Hsi porcelain blue? The drawing just looks like a canary on a toy red cart. Yet ingenuity can bridge many gaps, and Hockney is nothing if not ingenious...
...burden and that free education encouraged Mexicans to cross the border illegally. But the court held that Texas' interests were not "substantial" enough to outweigh unequal treatment. Citing "the importance of education in maintaining our basic institutions," Justice William Brennan said that Texas seemed to be promoting "a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime...