Word: well-to-do
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...Local authorities should accept some new forms of government, or at least governmental cooperation, in order to put an end to the zoning and planning warfare by which suburbs fight to remain enclaves for the well-to-do. As Alcoa Chairman Fritz Close said last week in San Francisco: "Enabling the poor to find housing in the suburbs, where the jobs are, is probably the biggest single step this country could take toward solving its social problems...
Like the very poor, who are forced to be passive because they have no choice, the well-to-do Linder family actively fills many a leisure hour in the pursuit of idleness-and in those vanishing arts of reading, thinking, enjoying the earth and-the TV dinner notwithstanding-eating and talking with friends...
...answer, according to an Illinois-based outfit called Americans Building Constitutionally (ABC), was a decided yes. ABC's expert tutors showed businessmen, small industrialists and well-to-do professionals how to set up family foundations, hire themselves and their relatives as directors, and then all but thumb their noses at federal and state tax collectors. The trick was to minimize income taxes by paying themselves small salaries and by writing off such things as cars, general-expense accounts and life-insurance policies...
...would have appeared too perfect, and therefore suspicious. But there were no M15 types on duty at Brown's ?only a myopic receptionist too vain to wear her National Health Service spectacles and a concierge who had been with the house for 43 years and certainly knew a well-to-do Yank tourist when he saw one: blue suit, rep tie, white handkerchief folded so that exactly half an inch protruded from the breast pocket; razor-cut hair, a bit dark for his age, and well-manicured fingers and lacquered nails clutching a copy of Fielding's Travel Guide...
...Yorkers of the title are the Mannixes, members of a dwindling clan of well-to-do Jews, and their carefully tolerant gentile connections. The story begins in the 1940s at a political dinner given in honor of Judge Simon Mannix, a shrewd, large-minded man who has been "mentioned" for the Supreme Court. He is well sketched by the author, and one impudent touch is superb: Mannix has a deaf son, she relates, and thus has learned to lipread. To know what is being whispered at a testimonial dinner is to be an ironist, and Mannix...