Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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MORALS. When their own children desert to the "counterculture" and in effect become strangers, Middle Americans say in bewilderment, "Either we neglected them or we spoiled them." A surprisingly large number of Middle Americans attribute the weakening of the family structures to the fact that so many mothers have gone...
The proliferation of drugs seems to the Middle American an apt metaphor for his sense that American life has grown contaminated. The spectacle of Woodstock?quite apart from the nudity and the mess?was offensive to Middle America because it seemed that everyone was dropping something or smoking something and...
INFLATION. Treadmill inflation has betrayed Middle Americans' faith in the work ethic; American affluence seems infinitely expandable, all right, but prices expand just as rapidly, or more so. Last year, despite his wage increases, the average American worker barely broke even in actual buying power. Inflation has a profound psychological...
(9 of 11) Telephones don't seem to work very well. Public transportation grows ramshackle. The quality of schools declines?in part because inflation prompts Middle Americans to vote against school-bond issues, against one of their own deepest values.
The Politics of Againstness