Word: working-class
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...voice--whose pattern of speech changes from poem to poem--the reader becomes aware of the themes that "I" or "we" favors: themes like the sea, a woman's sexuality, a sort of science-fictionalized view of the world, the family history and tawdry yet mysterious American middle- or working-class culture. These themes hold small clumps of otherwise disparate poems together while Sagan is trying out styles of writing. They provide, at least, a way of fitting her work together which makes the overview possible in a collection more satisfying than a chance encounter with her verse...
...class suburbs, infants and children often have more toys and gadgets, more clothes than they or their parents know what to do with. Often those children have more food, too, than their bodies can effectively use-with obesity the result. After 15 years of work with the children of America's poor and working-class families, I have, in recent years, been getting to know boys and girls of affluent parents, and it has been some adjustment for me-especially when I have heard mothers and fathers of even nursery-school children talk about what they want from...
...everything she has been denied all her life, a room of her own, time to herself, wealthy girlfriends to lavish clothes on her and teach her how to be a lady men to admire her. This topsy-turvey world works an instant transformation on Clara. The haggard lines painted on her face disappear overnight and with them the shabby working-class hausfrau; in her place stands an elegant fashion plate who abandons her peasant taciturnity for sparkling wit and high spirits, reads Anna Karenina and 1 Prontessi Spossi, swoons to romantic violin concerti and discovers that she has no desire...
Tory Credo. The more immediate concern of the party's liberal wing, however, is the fear that Mrs. Thatcher's aggressive championing of middle-class values may alienate working-class voters. Under the leadership of Macmillan, Home and Heath, the Conservatives had increasingly modified their traditional commitment to free-market policies, accepting a degree of both social welfarism and state interference in business. Mrs. Thatcher wants to reverse that trend and spearhead a return to a more traditional Tory credo: "I believe that a person who is prepared to work harder should receive greater rewards and keep them...
...delegates asked Ilda to explain Cuba's concept of work-study. Before she began, she asked if work-study existed in the States. The delegate said yes. In the United States, he continued, the poor and working-class students have to work in order to get an education, whereas the wealthy students leave their bills to their parents. Ilda smiled and began to explain work-study in Cuba. "All of our students work. From primary to the college level, students spend part of their time in school studying and part of their school time doing work. Socialism in Cuba aims...