Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...moralist than a technical economist. His moral point, expressed in many different contexts, is that something is wrong with our society when there are so many slums, so much unemployment, such shortages in educational facilities, housing, and other public goods--all in the face of unprecedented upper and middle class consumer prosperity...
...convinced of it, for the book is too sketchy to resolve the difficult question of a nation's conscience, yet sometimes, in his drive for simplicity, Black goes too far, as for instance when he airily declares that "the world, according to the Communists, is riven by a hideous class warfare between the have-not nations and the haves," or when he states that it is the "balance of hope" rather than the "balance of power that is at stake." One's mind wanders from Black's fascinating negotiations over Suez and the Indus River basin back to the Presidential...
...there is a good deal of sympathy for Communism among the intellectuals in French Africa, Essien-Udom thinks this danger is negligible in the former British colonies: "You just can't get an English speaking person interested in ideas....The people in English Africa are just interested in middle-class comforts and in becoming little bourgeois themselves--as quickly as possible...
Hunter's swimming career illustrates both the thrills and agonies of becoming an athlete of world class...
...increased sympathy for the Democrats, especially among the faculty, could be attributed to the fact that Kennedy once was a student at Princeton. Entering the class of 1939, Kennedy remained at the university for almost two months before moving on to another Ivy League college...