Word: underclasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...sport which enlists almost total dedication is crew, in which Parker has developed an unsurpassed tradition. There have been as many as eight seniors among nine letter winners and as few as two, but there never have been underclass letter winners one year who don't return the next season...
...real democratic principle" underclass the change, President Bunting stressed. Formerly, many scholarship students were restricted to rooms in the $360 price range, because all room-and-board scholarships were based on the lowest possible room charge. Beginning next year, she said, the standard figure of $460 will be used to set scholarship amounts...