Word: underclass
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...eminent power, still reveled in the accouterments of prosperity, still enjoyed a standard of living far more abundant than that of any other civilization. But 1967 awakened many of its citizens to the fact that conscienceless affluence can not only despoil the environment and drive a deprived underclass to the brink of rebellion; it can also pervade society with a sense of impotence and bring on the loss of unifying purpose...
...Liberals must somehow overcome the curious condescension which takes the form of sticking up for and explaining away anything, howsoever outrageous, which Negroes, individually or collectively, might do." Distinction must be made between "the vast Negro underclass, a disorganized, angry, hurt group easily given to self-destructive violence, and the radical, nihilist youth [that seeks to use the underclass for] apocalyptic confrontation with white society." The differentiation "means facing up to some of the realities of life in that class that liberals have been notoriously unwilling to acknowledge...
...bayonets, rumbling tanks and fire-gutted blocks in the heart of Detroit made it look as if the U.S. were on the edge of anarchy. "The outbreak has become something more than a race riot," said the Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet. "It threatens to become a revolution of the entire underclass of America...
...organizing activities during the first stage of the movement--they are primarily people involved in the system, rather than those frozen out of it. SDS must speak, Carl Davidson argues, primari Iy to the working class and "new working class," while continuing to recognize the problems of the underclass (the poor, disabled and chronically unemployed). The traditional always been a source of political power for radical movements. But the number of people in this class is declining relative to the new working class -- white-collar technicians, scientists, teachers and others who work at the bottom rungs of huge corporate bureaucracies...
...individual, who took his position seriously. Again it may be only coincidence, but the one pep talk of the hockey season was delivered by McCullough in the bus before the Crimson players pulled their one upset of the year, against Clarkson. Giving experience to another sophomore on a predominantly underclass team is no excuse for benching McCullough, and the deterioration of Kent Parrot's first line, on which McCullough normally winged, into the weak spot of the team has certainly provided no justification...