Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Talvi Laev New York City Prostitutes? In a nation that success fully eradicated all vestiges of class exploitation and bourgeois decadence...
Long range, the goal of antiabortion zealots is a constitutional amendment repealing the right to an abortion even for those women who can pay for it. Says Congressman Hyde: "We want to protect the unborn children of the rich and middle class, as well as the unborn of the poor." Nineteen of the 34 states needed have already passed resolutions calling for a constitutional convention to consider some sort of antiabortion amendment, and Hyde and others are trying to drum up the two-thirds congressional majority required to pass an amendment that would then go to the states for ratification...
...personal touches and discreet comforts of a well-managed small hotel. Establishments like these have flourished for years in Europe, while in the U.S., land of computer-run colossi built for a badge-and-bottle clientele and crammed with more than 2,000 rooms, the list of truly first-class, intimate hotels has long been woefully short...
When it comes to service and style, the mass (as opposed to class) hotels barely provide what Ralph Waldo Emerson thought was the minimum for a worthy inn: ". . . a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet." Many of the small hotels, on the other hand, feature decors that may include a Velasquez in the lobby (San Diego's Westgate) or enough brass to occupy a full-time polisher (Washington's Fairfax), plus fine restaurants, valets who will return a pressed suit in 30 minutes and arrangements with local tradesmen to provide books and other items...
DIED. Carey McWilliams, 74, energetic advocate of the underprivileged, author of 14 books, most of them on American class and ethnic injustice, and for 20 years, until 1975, editor of the liberal weekly the Nation; of cancer; in New York...