Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four cities, the upper classes scurry for status. Top status symbol: a foreign automobile. In one fantastic series of deals, a year-old Chevrolet Impala imported by a diplomat for $1,680 was ultimately bought by a Bombay movie star for $16,800. Import restrictions have made any foreign item desirable, including electric mixers, irons, refrigerators, hair dryers and record players. West Indian Author V. S. Naipaul, visiting India for the first time, records in his book Area of Darkness the xenophile plaint of a Delhi housewife: "I am just craze for foreign, just craze for foreign...
...notion held secretly or sheepishly by a number of music's leaders, supported by a body of folklore and some medical opinion. According to the theory, the higher the voice, the more stupid the singer - particularly tenors, whose resonant upper register causes more acute brain-beating frequencies...
...Leopard has sired a cub. Giuseppe di Lampedusa's posthumous novel described the life of a decaying aristocratic family during a period of social crisis in Sicily; The Garden of the Finzi-Continis describes the life of a decaying upper-class family during a period of social crisis in Ferrara. What's more, Novelist Bassani, an established poet, critic and editor who was responsible for the publication of The Leopard, has obviously learned from the master: his style is as rich and iridescent as Lampedusa's, and the substance of his novel is similarly sturdy stuff...
...Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, last week's upper-house elections could hardly have been more badly timed. Although production lines are humming faster than ever, Japan is going through a painful economic "readjustment" which in the past 16 months has wiped out thousands of small businesses, sent the stock market plunging 15% and consumer prices soaring. The government has been widely attacked for its open support of the U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam as well as for signing the long-overdue peace treaty with South Korea (TIME, July 2). Worst of all, Sato's Liberal Democratic Party...
Encouraged by their gains, leftist leaders talked hopefully of mounting a massive protest movement similar to the 1960 riots that toppled the government of Nobusuke Kishi. But for all his troubles, Sato still held the upper hand. His Liberal Democrats own a 53-seat majority in the all-important House of Representatives, and will not have to face elections until...