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...gains made by the rich have been spectacular, those of the middle class have been barely sufficient, and those of the poor not quite sufficient, to get them back where they were twelve to 15 years ago. So the gap between rich and poor is still growing -- to its widest point in 40 years, according to the calculations of some liberal economists. And that trend is alarming. Whether or not it influences this year's election, it could, if it continues, threaten the American Dream itself...
Novelist Cynthia Ozick, at Bryn Mawr College, Pa.: "In the possession of a heritage, there are no princes and no paupers. Every reader is a potential citizen of influence with a claim on patrimony and on the widest and most inclusive recesses of the culture...
Soviet TV interrupted a serial film to broadcast Gorbachev's statement, assuring that his remarks would have the widest distribution. It was carried on the official Tass news agency and was the lead item on the evening TV news...
Twenty-five percent of Americans now "live in poverty some time during the year," and in 1986, "the income gap between rich and poor families [reached] its widest point in four decades," the study said...
...blood-smeared Aias has the widest emotional range of all the characters, evoking bloodlust, paranoia, self-pity, and a doomed dignity. Vilmure ably displays this range, but he too falls prey to the disease that strikes most of the players: in moments of high drama, he affects a British accent. My friend the purist suggests that such affectation is intended to simulate the changes in intonation that Greek actors would have made at appropriate moments, but my guess is that Aias thinks it is on Masterpiece Theater...