Word: well-off
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...cooking up all those good times! THANK YOU! Tom (Trouble) Quint and Tony (T) Brown." The manager of the Lowell House kitchen, Mrs. Daley, says, "Kids come in late and we have open house. I don't mind it, though. Some of these kids aren't as financially well-off and they can't afford to eat out." Thelma recently received an invitation to St. Louis to attend the wedding of a former House resident. Thelma says she would have loved to have gone, but she had to work that weekend...
Coles has also published works on the children of migrant workers, Appalachian mountain families and sharecroppers. His recent works include "Eskimos, Chicanos and Indians" and "Privileged Ones: The Well-Off and the Rich in America...
Robert Coles has found a way at least to begin, if possible, to understand how such statements can be uttered. He studies and talks to their children, and the result is a book called Privileged Ones, in which he attempts to portray the children of the well-off and the rich, and the ones who are running this country. At the same time Coles has published the fourth volume of the Children of Crisis series, Eskimos, Chicanos and Indians, a book he believes the "narcissism of the rich" will overshadow. And, as he leaves his University Health Services office...
...America's children, rich and well-off as well as poor, in the hope that some day, one day soon, all boys and girls everywhere in the world will have a decent chance to survive, grow, and affirm themselves as human beings...
...generalizing. The word entitlement, according to Coles, was first uttered to him by a wealthy man--a lawyer and a stockbroker from a prominent family who was describing a social phenomenon that he saw in his children. Coles has adopted the idea to "describe what perhaps all quite well-off Americans transmit to their children--an important psychological common denominator, I believe: an emotional expression, really, of those familiar, class-bound prerogatives, money and power...