Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...plans, unemployment compensation, Social Security, Medicare, civil rights legislation. Some of the beneficiaries of these programs no longer consider themselves to be Democrats. Says Sol Chaikin, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union: "You have a group that has moved out of the proletariat into the broad middle class...
...acclaim from papers and television about his convention speech, and he will probably eat more ice cream than he should and have an extra daiquiri or two. He will luxuriate in his patrician world far from the American deprived whom he has championed, a long distance from the middle class whose stresses he says he perceives. Ted Kennedy may at last be a true Kennedy, one of those depicted in the photographs, paintings and mementos that grace the family homes in Palm Beach, Fla., McLean, Va., and Hyannis Port, Mass...
...surely correct that we cannot solve problems by throwing money at them; but it is also correct that we dare not throw national problems onto a scrap heap of inattention and indifference. The poor may be out of political fashion, but they are not without human needs. The middle class may be angry, but they have not lost the dream that all Americans can advance together...
...crusty Avrea, who frets that inventors are treated as "second-class citizens," holds a 1970 patent for a "coolant recovery system" that includes a small plastic bottle attached to the radiator by tubing. Before Avrea's invention, hot radiators sometimes spilled frothy fluid onto the road through a pressure-relief valve, lowering efficiency and forcing drivers to check the coolant level. Now, that fluid flows into Avrea's container; when the engine cools, the liquid runs back through the tubing into the radiator...
...little short of miraculous. As this lively history recounts, the Resistance began as many hundreds of separate, desperate decisions by men and women whose circumstances varied widely. Mutual opposition to the Germans was never sufficient reason for leaders from the extreme left and extreme right to set aside traditional class hatred. The arrogant assumption of authority from the distance of London by the little-known Charles de Gaulle was a complicating factor that served to divide as often as it unified...