Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, they come about as close as possible to collective fulfillment of the American dream. More than half report incomes exceeding $50,000 annually, 13.8 per cent earn more than $100,000. The class reflects current trends in upper middle class living. Jogging, tennis and squash are the favorite sports, but apparently they are not favored with quite enough dedication: 41 per cent said they were overweight by more than five pounds. The class clearly believes in hard work, with 57 per cent putting in more than 50 hours per week--nearly 40 per cent never wish to retire...
...Elizabeth" of this book has always, she explains, "all of of my life, been looking for help from a man." And so it is a record of the men--Southern intellectuals, and Southern homosexuals transplanted to New York, upper middle-class Amsterdam doctors, Kentucky Communists sustained by faith and New York drifters sustained by disbelief. Standing in the background is the shadowy outline of Robert Lowell, to whom she was married and with whom she shared a house at No. 67 Marlborough St. in Boston...
...private insurers provided an incentive to hold down costs, the "rats" could force a much greater sharing of facilities. Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, for example, provides computerized electrocardiogram analysis for seven other hospitals in Michigan. When a heart patient checks into Crystal Falls Community Hospital in the Upper Peninsula, a physician attaches wires to the patient's arms, legs and chest, then pushes a button that activates a line to the Ford Hospital computer. As soon as a circuit is clear, the Detroit computer signals "go," then reads the electrical signals and transmits an analysis of the readings?...
Awkwardness. Embarrassment. Gradual. . . shame. The eyes start to bulge. The body tries to move, but the feet stay still. He runs in place from the waist up. Perspiration starts to form on the upper lips. There is just the suggestion . . . yes . . . a smile. But it is camouflage, a thin subterfuge hiding disorientation, incipient humiliation, blind panic...
...culture can now turn art into a "reproducible commodity." Nelson Rockefeller pushed the ability to copy art into a $4 million investment. Several weeks before he died, he mailed more than 500,000 catalogs to an upper middle-class audience he hoped would splurge for one of his 118 high-quality reproductions, ranging in price from a $65 teapot stand to a $7500 bronze statue...