Word: workingman
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...said to my friend Ramon, "Ramon, you are right, the students of Cambridge are certainly strange, and perhaps more than that." The night before I had gone to one of their local parties where a girl told me I should not wear my good suit but dungarees and a workingman's shirt. "God made me ugly enough," I told her. "If He had wanted me to look like a cow I would have been born in Texas." The students of Adams House are very smelly. At one of their parties you do not have to be a weatherman to know...
...room was a shambles of sandwich wrappers and coffee cups -and there was a settlement. The terms: $99.5 million over four years. Mayor Rizzo, who had promised not to increase taxes, said he would raise the money through "a conglomerate of new taxes that won't affect the workingman...
...stylistically, in the new Administration is Labor Secretary Peter Brennan, a lifelong New York Democrat with a rough-and-ready tongue and no apologies for grabbing all he can for the workingman. Nixon reached deep into the labor movement to pluck out Brennan, president of the New York City and New York State Building and Construction Trades Councils. He is the first rank-and-file union member appointed to the post since President Eisenhower chose Martin Durkin, a plumber. But Brennan speaks the President's language on many issues, especially patriotism and the Viet Nam War. His appointment...
LaVelle is something of an oddity even in Chicago's hardboiled, cigar-chomping newspaper tradition. He quotes Nietzsche and reads Walt Whitman and Jonathan Swift. He bristles with ideas but belittles intellectuals. He declines to romanticize the workingman's life, offering instead a knowing view of the restive blue-collar world-a world that he believes the typical newspaper columnist cannot understand...
...class conflict: "The workingman perennially has been the bane of the intellectuals since he seeks meat on the table before he will sacrifice himself for some vague Utopia...