Word: working-class
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...Rose's Roman Catholic Church dominates a Cleveland working-class neighborhood of shingled two-family homes. On the Sunday before the debate, a sermon resisted change through severe warnings against the twin evils of abortion and recreational sex. "Think about it when you go to vote," admonished the priest. Parishioner Judy Tren-kamp, a photocopier operator, lives with her son in a mock-Tudor house next to the railroad tracks. "Half of this parish is out of work," she shrugs. "I wanted Ferraro to trounce Bush...
...Eksi family lives in a tenement on Beusselstrasse, a bustling street in the working-class Moabit district. Melahab and her husband Mustafa, 45, share a three-room flat with their three youngest sons. Their daughters Nilguen and Aynur, 21, have a small apartment on the top floor of the same building. Mustafa is a forklift operator at the Siemens factory, where he has worked for 15 years. He is a cheerful, gregarious man. The wave of anti-Turkish sentiment has left him puzzled and saddened, and he sees little help from the national government. "I am not political," he says...
...least that is how things used to work. Ever since the Peronist Party was founded in 1946 as the political base of the late dictator Juan Domingo Perón, the group has won every presidential election in which it was free to participate. Largely because of Perón's seemingly indelible charisma, the party has had a near mystical sway over a vast poor and working-class constituency. Today, however, the Peronists are torn by factional feuding, an affliction that many members believe could be cured if only Isabel (born Maria Estela) Mart...
...Vaillant's work is that it is the first long-term study of alcoholism as it develops in individual lives. The usual approach is to examine alcoholics to see how their sickness evolved, a technique that is always blurred by the distortions of the victim's memory. Vaillant was able to begin at the beginning. For the past 16 years he has been the director of a unique research study that since 1940 has been following the lives of 200 Harvard graduates and 400 innercity, working-class men from Boston and Cambridge. In 1977 Vaillant published the first...
...seemed to stand best on their own, unadorned, and that is the way they appear in the album, with just a minimum of technical refinement. Beginning with the title track, a bone chiller about Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, the ten songs in Nebraska are set in the smalltown, working-class milieu that Springsteen has made his own. There, all lives are dead ends, but the turnpikes go on forever. Springsteen certainly has mined this territory before, but he makes the repetition work for him: he can get the same sort of mythic resonance from this setting that John Ford...