Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Soleri's disciples are mainly white, middle class and college educated. Many come from what they call "a small California college," which often turns out to be Stanford. Though they take communal meals and share a withering scorn for "obvious suburbanites," these principled individuals are only quietly radical. "Arcosanti is based on solid middle-class values," says Scott Riley, 27, a former "small college" student. "We don't object to sitting around Sundays reading the New York Times, but we refuse to get caught up in working umpteen hours to pay for a nice...
...Carter is today a political cripple both at home and abroad because the larger issues have swamped him. Inflation and interest rates have doubled in his time. The true anguish at home, as described by Patricia Harris, Secretary of Health and Human Services, is among members of the middle class, who are far from deprivation but find themselves losing ground economically. Their fear is directed at Carter. Overseas, Soviet influence massed and grew and almost everywhere shoved a clumsy and reluctant U.S. against the wall. "We feel," says Raymond Aron, the distinguished French student of Realpolitik, "that American power...
...civics-class approach to the world appeared again when the Shah of Iran fell. While cautious in public statements, Carter in private had nearly convinced himself that Iran would return to the constitution of 1906, that the legislature would reassemble, the military would hold order and a stable government take root. "It was preposterous," says one who helped plan the American response. "The President's thinking was not based on any actual experience of how governments really work in this world...
...three days of speeches, none of the politicians made any new promises or said much that had not been heard before by the generally reserved audience of 16,000, most of whom were middle-aged and middle class. Anderson was regarded as a curiosity; few in the crowd considered him to be a viable candidate. Kennedy stirred some enthusiasm when he recalled his two decades of involvement in civil rights fights. Of unemployment in America, both black and white, Kennedy said: "The only truly Democratic response can be summed up in three short words: jobs, jobs, jobs...
...almost 5% a year, largely because of the country's increased nickel production and its new status as an oil exporter (258,000 bbl. sent to the U.S. since March). But most of the country's wealth remains concentrated in a few hands, despite a growing middle class. State Department experts believe that the country's potential prosperity could avert a total revolutionary upheaval, but only if political and social reforms are adopted. Says one frustrated U.S. official: "What they don't understand is that simply killing Communists doesn't solve the problem...