Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roberts, meanwhile, who held a barely comforting but nevertheless upper hand in the early sixties, when Finney could only rankle at his own inhibitions, must now suffer the humiliation of seeing her husband swing free and appear, at least, to be having a grand old time. The director, Anthony Page, attaches time tags to each of the film's sequences without pushing the point, but the message comes across nonetheless: in the period after marital hypocrisy had been declared taboo but before women began to really assert their rights, a housewife who had surrendered her identity to her husband faced...
...President's self-reliance and self-discipline have partially shielded him from an awareness that not everyone is capable of overcoming deprivation and performing a useful role in society. Then. too. the President's pals, like himself, are mostly upper-middle-class Americans who have achieved mightily. His closest golfing companions are Rodney Markley, a vice president of Ford Motor Co., and William G. Whyte, chief lobbyist for U.S. Steel Corp. Last week, in an admission that mildly embarrassed the President, Whyte said that his company had paid for five of Ford's golfing trips...
...never gives up. Rejected by Yale Law School (he had only a B average at Michigan), Ford stubbornly got a job coaching football and boxing at the university for three years before he was finally granted admittance. Once in a classroom, he grimly held his own, graduating in the upper third of his class. The first time he ran for public office -winning his congressional seat from Grand Rapids in 1948-he loved to campaign, to talk with people, relax with people, simply to be with people...
...Possessed by Caesarmania" and "obsessed with power." That is how Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl has recently been castigating Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. One Social Democratic retort, fired off by Party Chairman Willy Brandt, is that the Christian Democrats are "oozing arrogance and stupidity with their upper-class attitudes." Schmidt, whose sharp tongue long ago earned him the nickname "the Lip," contemptuously refers to Kohl, who is Minister-President (governor) of the Rhineland-Palatinate, as "the Minister-President of where...
Michael Medved, co-author of What Really Happened to the Class of '65? agrees with Time that his Palisades class was fairly typical of that generation of college-bound students, that group of upper middle class heroes-to-be. "Not only were we supposed to change the world, but we were going to do it before we were 25," he says, looking a little surprised, now, at the expectations of an older generation. The Palisades High School class of '65, he suggests, serves as a symbol for all those graduating seniors, who suddenly discovered they weren't going to fulfill...