Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Society--has lost the nerve to engage in this global battle of values. The third is that the Soviet Union is still the principal carrier of totalitarian disease, and that, as a result of the default of the American liberal elite, it has now gained the upper hand. To Moynihan the challenge is that clear-cut, and all the more so because he imposes upon it an essentially aristocratic grid. The real duel is not people to people or belief-system to belief-system; it is elite to elite, with the masses on both sides serving alternately as spectators...
...Valley, Calif., as citizens started using their fireplaces, the tangy aroma of burning eucalyptus logs hung in the air. Only a few flurries of snow have dusted the highest mountains of New England, though by last week the first real blast of winter had struck the Rocky Mountain and upper Plains states. Inhabitants of Rapid City, S. Dak., glided through the streets on skis after the storm dropped up to three feet of snow from California as far as the Great Lakes...
...television cameras that have as much as 40 times better resolution than the devices carried by Pioneers 10 and 11, which flew by Jupiter in 1973 and 1974, and returned color photographs to earth. After approaching as close as 280,000 km (174,000 miles) of Jupiter's upper atmosphere, Voyager 1 will be catapulted by the powerful Jovian gravity toward Saturn, which it will not reach until 1981. Following closely behind, Voyager 2 may be sent even farther afield, to fly by Uranus in 1986 and Neptune...
Children of the upper class generally seem to show less respect to their elders than the offspring of the upwardly mobile. The hulking, mouth-breathing surliness of adolescence knows no social distinctions, of course. But the upper-class child, while able to engage easily in small talk that won't bore his elders, rarely says "Yes, sir" or "Yes, ma'am" when talking to his parents' friends. The custom still applies in those provinces of the middle class where authoritarianism has not fallen into disrepute...
...upper class sees social pushiness as a trait of the new rich. Quarreling with a salesperson or bank teller is considered gauche?it should be handled discreetly by the husband's secretary. An Internal Revenue Service investigator observes that the new rich are the ones who cheat flagrantly on their income taxes. "The traditionally wealthy," says he, "are accustomed to paying high taxes and know the graceful ways to avoid...