Word: classed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Meanwhile, like other facets of the counterculture, the new diets are filtering into the suburbs via the teenagers. Rows of unfamiliar foodstuffs are appearing in middle-class cupboards: brown rice by the bucketful, as well as packages of aduki, granola, gomasio, ginseng and miso. Worried mothers are on the phone to each other whenever one of their children threatens to "go macrobiotic," for they have only the vaguest notion of what that means. Going organic poses another kind of problem, for that will mean that the Thanksgiving turkey must be imported from an organic farm for a dollar a pound...
Beyond Letters. Many doctors are particularly disturbed by the inability of the poor to obtain exemptions on psychiatric grounds. "Draft evasion is a middle-class activity," says Dr. Peter La Valle, a San Francisco psychiatrist. "Poor people aren't allowed to be officially neurotic in this country." To eliminate this inequity, many physicians have started organizations like the Medical Committee for Human Rights, which has chapters serving youths in 30 cities across the country. Says Dr. Eli Messinger, a Manhattan psychiatrist who chairs the committee: "We feel that draft physicals are too rapid, and that as a consequence many...
Despite the nation's economic difficulties and tightened household budgets, the pornography business is wallowing in pay dirt. The market for erotic books, films and paraphernalia, which are sold mostly to the middle class and middle aged, has increased by an estimated 300% in the past five years. Police experts figure that annual sales of pornography are about $500 million, and some put the total as high as $2 billion...
While the new elite yammer in plenary session and show off their fountain pens, the new nation's problems veer out of control. There is a rising class of paper shufflers, a groundswell of expectant unemployed, a shortage of skilled labor, a trade union movement that demands more and more at a time when the country needs sacrifices, and roving bands of young thugs and looters. The inevitable result is violence and a wave of bloodshed that finally and fatally engulfs Bray on a lonely up-country road...
...recognize that his smear tactics and early '50s political style are no longer viable in the '70s. He may take a more restrained course in preparing for the 1972 race. He may indeed end the war, stop the repression and, most important, do something for the lower middle class which has been hardest hit by the inflation/recession economy...