Word: well-to-do
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...exists to be brought to his senses in Tartuffe is Orgon (Stefan Gierasch), a bluff, well-to-do bourgeois who courts innocence by association. His mind's eye is so befogged that he persistently mistakes sanctimoniousness for sanctity, guile for goodness. His chosen saint in residence, Tartuffe (John Wood), is a monster of false piety, a dark prince of humbug and hypocrisy. More significantly, he is the stinking essence of the world's wisdom: that a crime is no crime unless one gets caught...
...architects of the junta's economic policy. The New York Times reported last week that that policy, of inviting foreign investment and imports at the expense of a domestically-controlled economy, has turned Chile into "a bazaar filled with foreign goods that are snapped up by the well-to-do while millions of workers and their families are living hand to mouth." In many cases, workers are not living "hand to mouth" at all, but starving outright. At least 13 per cent of the labor force is unemployed, and 200,000 people are on relief, receiving a monthly income...
...underclass is made up mostly of impoverished urban blacks, who still suffer from the heritage of slavery and discrimination. The universe of the underclass is often a junk heap of rotting housing, broken furniture, crummy food, alcohol and drugs. The underclass has been doubly left behind: by the well-to-do majority and by the many blacks and Hispanics who have struggled up to the middle class, or who remain poor but can see a better day for themselves or their children. Its members are victims and victimizers in the culture of the street hustle, the quick...
...Vintner John's armigeral sons emigrated to the American colonies aboard the good ship Safety in 1635. Jimmy's 11th generation ancestor Thomas became a well-to-do Virginia planter, while his elder brother John acquired an even richer swath of Old Dominion farm land. It was John's son, Robert ("King") Carter, who became the first American millionaire. According to Harold Brooks-Baker, Debrett's managing director, hustling King Carter owned 300,000 acres, more than 1,000 slaves and perhaps the largest collection of books in the colonies -at a time, notes Brooks-Baker...
...like to play women who want something for themselves and will fight for it," says Andrea. To pre pare for her role, she spent hours in the Egyptian collection at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art and is now reading Herodotus and other historians. Says Andrea: "The well-to-do women had at least three handmaidens and went through elaborate preparations early in the day. They also shaved their heads, which I have no intention of doing...