Word: working-class
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Bingo is particularly suited to the working-class British housewife. Unlike her U.S. counterpart, she is apt to have no hobbies, recreations or interests of her own; she does little social, welfare or community work, and frequently does not have a single book in the house. Her husband is notoriously uninterested in togetherness, prefers to spend his evenings in the local pub. Said one bingo organizer: "A social revolution has taken place. There is now something just as respectable for women to go to as a pub or club has long been for their husbands. No one would call...
Thinking every man as good as the next, the prewar Australian worker was a passionate believer in class warfare and working-class solidarity. Australia got its first Labor Prime Minister in 1904, 20 years before Britain. Labor unions acquired a major voice in government and a death grip on the economy. The worst sin in the Australian calendar was scabbing, and the prevailing work pace was one that G.I.s came to call "the Australian crawl...
Britain's discontented middle class, says London University Professor Ronald Fletcher, "is actually better off than before the war, but is worse off in relation to those below." Workers own TV sets, cars and motor scooters, often go abroad for their holidays. Free education enables their children to aspire to be physicians, naval officers, scientists. "Working class" has become a pejorative phrase. In the new low-cost housing development at East Grinstead, authorities recently refused to distribute a police leaflet giving advice on protecting homes from burglars until the phrase "working-class families" was eliminated. Laborers no longer doff...
Summer of the 17th Doll (by Ray Lawler) reached Broadway, after something of a triumph in London, from its native Australia. As Broadway's first newsworthy Australian play in history, it has its piquant side-plenty of local color, a working-class lingo, accents faithfully rendered by an all-Australian cast. As altogether honest work, it treats understandingly of believable people and of an odd patterning of human lives. But neither a fresh background nor a sound theme can give the play sufficient dramatic pressure or verbal leverage; if there are no false notes to the writing, there...
Fretwell accepted, then started to worry. What would be controversial, yet might appeal to the working-class parish? Fretwell decided against tricky techniques and went to work. He had less than five months to do the paintings, but he finished them in time. "By Jove!" Lane gasped when he saw them. "These are controversial all right." Fretwell had portrayed the Holy Family in modern dress...