Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Punk seems very self-indulgent to me, at least in this country. I think it draws a lot of upper-middle class audience....Folk music is musically valid because it relates the reality of experience as opposed to analytical considerations; it encompasses humanity in a way tht no popular music does...
...mostly with a detached kind of bemusement, the world this week awaits an unprecedented event: the fiery fall of the largest machine man has ever hurled into space. The American Sky lab vehicle, nine stories tall and weighing 77.5 tons, is expected to slip into the earth's upper atmosphere, then disintegrate into a celestial shower of flaming metal as spectacular as any of last week's Fourth of July fireworks displays. Somewhere, probably at sea, ten fragments, each weighing 1,000 Ibs. or more, will crash to earth at speeds of up to 270 m.p.h. with the force...
...Sandinistas increased in numbers, they also picked up new recruits from Nicaragua's upper and middle classes. Within the FSLN, three main factions have emerged from the infighting. Of these, two make no apology for being unabashedly Marxist. But the third and largest group, known as the Terceristas (Insurrectionists), is composed of socialists, Roman Catholic liberals (including many priests), trade unionists and even a few businessmen...
...equivalent of the Italian Red Brigades or West Germany's Red Army Faction. This year they have killed two American servicemen as well as several prominent Turks. The groups consist of small, tightly knit units operating on a hit-and-run basis. Their members come mainly from the upper middle class -youths who have gone beyond an infatuation with Marxism to revolutionary violence. Turkish police have had some success in cracking down on the terrorists. In Izmir, they arrested seven members of a "Marxist-Leninist Turkish Liberation Army Front," an underground organization that may have been responsible for killing...
...unacceptable risk, relatively well-off countries such as Mexico, with its new-found oil riches, and Brazil will continue to find a welcome. Middle-income states such as South Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan will also find lending officers receptive. But the traditional weaklings, such as Dahomey, Upper Volta, Turkey, Zaire, Egypt and others, will face a real struggle trying to get additional loans. Says one White House economist: "For the weaker LDCS the choice will be either lowering their living standard or cutting their development programs. Neither choice is any good...