Word: white-collar
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...sunny afternoon half of white-collar Rome strolls down the Via Veneto to see the movie stars at play. There they sit at the dime-size sidewalk tables at Doney's and Rosati's and the Strega, or slouch along the bar at the Excelsior Hotel. There, like swarms of gnats, come the hundreds of little middlemen, promoters, rumor touts and inside-kiters who do the dizzy business of making Italian movies. And in the oleander evenings, while the Roman sky turns blue and gold, the "wasps" (motor scooters) snarl through the Via Veneto, and oldtimers sip their...
Among other things, it created a whole new white-collar class, largely ruined penmanship, made correspondence vastly easier (though not necessarily better), inaugurated the age of carbon copies and their useless proliferation in innumerable filing cabinets, handed writers an alarmingly facile weapon of self-expression. Anybody who wants to know almost anything concerning the typewriter, can find it in Historian Richard N. Current's The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It and Journalist Bruce Bliven Jr.'s The Wonderful Writing Machine. Current's book is a detailed history of the typewriter's origins. Bliven...
Opponents of the suffrage extension attack it on two grounds. First, they claim that people of this age are too easily influenced by their emotions, and are thus ready prey to political demagoguery. Rationality, however, does not necessarily come with age. Subjective, irrational considerations influence the white-collar worker of 30 as surely as they affect the high-school student of 18. The housewife with a son in Korea and the farmer who "distrusts foreigners" are easy targets for slick political oratory. If the voting age were lowered, high schools would place an even greater emphasis on civics and American...
...story began with a good-natured disagreement between the Washington Post, which thought a parkway along the canal was a good idea, and Justice Douglas, who thought otherwise and suggested that a hike along the route might prove his point (TIME, March 29). Reporter Bookman was one of 37 white-collar workers, nature lovers and reporters who joined Justice Douglas on his venture. There were no invitations -anyone was welcome to tag along. Bookman got his walking orders on a Thursday morning. When the teletypewriter began rattling out the week's news queries from New York, one query asked...
...Scotland's moors and grey cities comes annually a host of dogged youths who fight their way into the white-collar professions-and then bustle away to hunt the big money of London, Toronto and New York...