Word: uplifter
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...they carefully emphasize the more attractive aspects of Chinese life, the tours nonetheless reveal a good deal of its quality and detail. The accompanying color pictures, taken on one such tour, show smiling children in their best dress, model schools, other civic projects and an air of brisk, bright uplift -but they also make clear the ceaseless indoctrination, the careful regimentation and the firm discipline that pervade life in Red China...
...condemn is the author's writing style, which admittedly is: elight, Frank does examine and refute Burns' assumptions with as much eloquence and force as any of the reviewers who have panned the book. As for Burns' prescription for the federal government to direct a program of "cultural uplift," Frank reports "the tentative conclusion that the equality of my life is none of he government's goddamned business...
...population grows and shifts, its wants speed ahead. Americans have an insatiable craving for improved goods and services, more eagerly embrace new products than any other people. Their willingness to buy almost anything that will amuse, uplift, beautify or offer convenience is demonstrated by the marketplace successes of such things as textured stockings, the electric carving knife, skate boards, diet cola, shoe-shining machines and speed-reading courses. Getting backers for a sound idea is no real problem; credit is cheaper (average interest rate: 5%) and bankers more eager to lend in the U.S. than in any other major nation...
...fought) by a whole new group of ideologues of poverty, notably including Michael Harrington, who "discovered" the new poverty in his 1963 book, The Other America, and sociologist Saul Alinsky, a tireless agitator and polemicist who travels from city to city advising the poor on how to organize for uplift. Underlying the anti-poverty campaign is the uniquely American belief-surprisingly often correct-that evangelism, money and organization can lick just about anything, including conditions that the world has always considered inevitable...
...remarkable gentleness and modesty of Rudolf Serkin inspires utmost respect and admiration. Said Israeli Cellist Raphael Sommer, who came from Paris just for Marlboro: "It is a great lesson in humility for me to study under such great men as Serkin and Casals. It is an incredible spiritual uplift-like a ray of sunshine from those above us. And to actually play with them-with a man like Serkin! We are free and equal with them. You could not find anything else like this in the world...