Word: affluent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world of fund-raising organizations and church administrators, the conception of the parish church as the beating heart of a community is growing steadily rarer. But Holy Trinity is a relic of the more personal past, preserved by poverty. "We're an island in the affluent society," says Father Kern. "Most people just don't believe there are poor any more. But there are plenty of them. We painted the church and parish house bright white for a reason. The incoming people hear that there's a big white place where they can get help. There...
Leathery, blue-eyed Victor L. Butterfield, 56, is no man to blame The Bomb or The Affluent Society. The main cause of student lethargy, says he, is the "paternalistic" U.S. system of spoon-fed lectures and assembly-line grading. "We treat students more as prep-school boys than as adults under guidance...
...doomed German left, an anti-Hitler refugee in Paris, a political commissar with the Red forces in Spain, a refugee again in Mexico. Now this richly wounded hero of the class war, living in Mexico and blacklisted by both left and right, has returned to haunt an affluent generation that does not believe in ghosts but is scared of them...