Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wear Daily captain and uninspired New York gossip columnist, as editor. "I would keep its politics, although I might run fewer pieces and longer ones. I'm beginning to tire of all this pop psychology though. It doesn't have much to do with New York as an upper-middle-class service magazine." Murdoch plans to reverse Felker's transformation of the Village Voice over the past couple of years from a gritty neighborhood weekly to more of a faddish entertainment guide. "It's got away from politics," Murdoch complains. "It's gone too much into life-styles...
Draft resisters are largely white, upper-middle class, and college-educated. Caught up in the campus anti-war movement, they had ready access to draft counseling and the resources to go to Canada or Europe...
...kind of shakedown cruise-shakier at times, perhaps, than Jimmy Carter might have wished. But it accomplished the general purposes the President-elect had in mind. For the first time, Carter last week assembled his top aides, Cabinet nominees and other upper-echelon appointees, giving them a chance to get to know each other and to begin wrestling with the problems they will inherit...
...that he might lose editorial control of the company. Next thing Felker knew, Murdoch was negotiating with the biggest (23.8%) stockholder, Manhattan Socialite Carter Burden. In near desperation, Felker turned for help to Kay Graham, an old, close friend. By week's end, Murdoch seemed to have the upper hand after the bidding had gone to $7.50 a share for stock that had been traded over-the-counter for $2 a month earlier, raising the paper value of the company to some $13.4 million and attesting to its potential worth...
...place-France after World War I, sapped yet still adventuresome. Weil's mind belonged to the classics but her emotions owed much to 19th century romanticism, especially the aspect that substituted the sufferings of the artist for the anguish of the martyr. Simone was born into the French upper-middle class in 1909. Her father-a physician-and her mother had Jewish backgrounds, though they observed no religious ritual or custom. The child never regarded herself as a Jew. Later she rejected the God of the Old Testament as the sanctioner of cruelty and declared, instead, that her tradition...