Word: wealth
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...name like no other. The Rockefeller clan connotes wealth and history, power and prestige. That was one reason the public last week leaped at a $1.3 billion worldwide offering to buy a 71.5% stake in Rockefeller Center, the crown jewel of the family fortune. The 14-building complex located in midtown Manhattan includes the art deco Radio City Music Hall and the RCA Building...
...child from the suburbs. In the ghetto, suggests Benjamin Carmichael in an article in Black Perspectives on Crime and the Criminal Justice System, the successful criminal cuts a glamorous figure and projects an enviable life-style, becoming a role model for youngsters whose only glimpse of wealth is on Dynasty or Dallas. Says Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.): "You cannot ignore the fact that a poor black guy has little chance of succeeding, except in the seedy world of crime...
...would not say that Lawrence and the Peace Corps were made for each other. Still, if one is far up-country without a paddle, there is a lot to be said for the kind of unfazable aplomb that only generations of inherited wealth and socially impeccable inbreeding can produce. Tom is captured and brainwashed by the local guerrillas in a test of wills that ends in a draw, with Tom reciting Chairman Mao's aphorisms (they sound like the text of a self-help book to him), his tormentors marching into battle singing the Washington State fight song (which sounds...
...sense, America long ago made a shrewd instinctive bargain with the world. It offered a prize -- its wealth, its freedom and promise -- and then, Darwinian, dared those strong enough and bold enough to make the leap. It was, and is, a hard journey. And, of course, the newcomers were too literal- minded about the prize. The sidewalks were not paved with gold...
...question is not really whether the new Americans can be assimilated -- they must be -- but rather how the U.S. will be changed by that process. Economically, there will inevitably be strains, but most evidence indicates that the immigrants create more wealth than they consume. Socially and culturally, the diversity can hardly help benefiting the U.S. by acting as an antidote to everything that is bland and homogenized. The sad fact, indeed, is that uniformity is exactly what the immigrants' children will probably strive for, and their grandchildren achieve...