| 单词 | middle class |
| 例句 | People with four-year college degrees tended to consider themselves middle class even if they earned little. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She exists in an in-between place, middle class on paper but squeezed in reality. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Because of income inequality—the widening gap between rich and poor—large swaths of America that had once been solidly middle class no longer were. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The upper middle class had never been so happy: they could buy as much whisky as they wanted, and automobiles on credit. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z An evangelical from what he calls a “solidly middle class” family in the Midwest, he would have been an anomaly at Brown a couple of generations ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z For most of the country’s history, race was a fairly clear class marker—-black usually meant poor, and white middle class or better. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Now twenty-eight, he may never reach the middle class, he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Overnight we went from being a family desperately trying to stay in the middle class to one with hopes of sneaking into the upper, or at least the upper-middle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His father had been a military man, his mother a homemaker, solidly middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But before you disparage it, you have to taste just how hungry these kids are to escape the lower end of the middle class and move up. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z And while Durham had one of the largest black middle classes of any city its size in America, Fuller knew better than to count too heavily on this group for financial support. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The growing economic power of the South has helped lift evangelical Christians into the middle and upper middle classes, just as earlier generations of Roman Catholics moved up in the mid-twentieth century. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In fact, if you are white and middle class, you might not even realize the drug war is still going on. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z How could a caste system exist, in view of the black middle class? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In a country where the overwhelming majority of people identify themselves in polls as “middle class,” there seemed to be no consensus as to what class meant, let alone whether it mattered. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z First, blacks tend to be first-generation middle class, as in Whitiker’s case, which means they have fewer resources to draw upon as they navigate the middle-class world. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Along with our other material possessions, our Mazda tells everybody we are from the middle class. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The word burzhuika comes from the same word as bourgeoisie—the middle class who liked luxury. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And while Papa and Mamma were solidly middle class, they weren’t exactly flush. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It was not coincidence that the leadership of the southern civil rights movement was drawn mainly from a well-educated black middle class. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They wouldn’t get rich, but an engineer’s salary was more than enough to crack into the ranks of the comfortable middle class. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The city was home to a large laboring class, a small middle class, and even a few millionaires who regularly packed up their wives and children for the Grand Tour of European capitals. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The upper middle class and the economic right, who had favored the coup, were euphoric. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And now, she was showing the same disdain for them that the middle class might have felt for her in her other life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z By every conventional measure, Justice is now solidly middle class, but she is still trying to learn how to feel middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The once tight connection between race and class has weakened, too, as many African-Americans have moved into the middle and upper middle classes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The Uplands became home to a thriving middle class, while the over 1,700 units in Cherry Hill became a breeding ground for poverty, drugs, and despair. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z By that point, I’m not sure there really even was a middle class anymore—just all of us hoeing for root vegetables next to our cracked aboveground pools. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They remain aloof from the modern temptation that captivates many in America’s middle class: the temptation to relieve the anonymity of public life by trying to make it intimate. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he makes more than he ever dreamed of in Mexico, his life is anything but middle class and setbacks are routine. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And for thousands of students, that initial disadvantage is the difference between going to college—and having a real shot at the middle class — and not. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z At the time, the decision to skip college was not that unusual, even for a child of the middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But most immigrants then were Europeans, and though they spoke different languages, their Caucasian features helped them blend into New York’s middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Tony Blair’s glottal stops and flattened vowels in office were an attempt to downplay his private school background, as is David Cameron’s plausibility-stretching insistence that he’s “middle class.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Martinelli and other former factory workers say that, over time, they have come to fear that the fall out of the middle class could be permanent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z However, I do not wish to witness the awful spectacle of the Negroes moving upward into the middle class. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Banks, more confident about measuring risk, now extend credit to low- income families, so that owning a home or driving a new car is no longer evidence that someone is middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Janny Scott took as her map the newfound statistical evidence showing that the upper middle class lived longer and healthier lives than the middle class, which in turn did better than the working class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The rise of a middle class - and a growing, wage-earning working class, as London’s industry expanded - was to have a greater effect on changing musical tastes in Britain than the whims of aristocratic patrons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z At the same time, the covert goal of the government was to create an African middle class to blunt the appeal of the ANC and the liberation struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their children quit school at sixteen and go into the army, the jails, the state hospitals; when troubled times come, they join the Klan and do the rabble-rousing for the middle class. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t just think we were part of the middle class, the great engine of America powering us forward; we were part of it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z His operas would rip to shreds the comfortable and suffocating morality of the middle classes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Avrion Mitchison then rejoined us, and the conversation for a short time reverted to the casual banter of the intellectual middle class. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Her job and paycheck say she’s middle class, but what does that mean? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “There was no middle class like you have here.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I found myself on a campus with golden children of western America’s upper middle class. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the late nineteenth century, Irish and German immigrants served the urban upper and middle classes, then left for the factories as soon as they could. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It has a thriving economy, a growing Latino community, and a substantial black middle class. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But for his father and others of a generation that could count on a comfortable life without a degree, the fall out of the middle class has come as a shock. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Across the country, the upper middle class so dominates elite universities that high-income students, on average, actually get slightly more financial aid from colleges than low- income students do. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The middle class rather is tempted by the pastoral impulse to deny its difference from the lower class—even to attempt cheap imitations of lower-class life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I passed along Tyler Reich’s insight—that Levittown was full of people who once felt a part of the middle class but had fallen down the ladder. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But our leaders were making speeches about how America’s middle class had to stop dreaming and start learning how to really work. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They must demonstrate through words and deeds their ability to live by and aspire to the same moral codes as the white middle class, even while they are being discriminated against wrongly. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So it is alarming, upon returning to the upper middle class from a sojourn, however artificial and temporary, among the poor, to find the rabbit hole close so suddenly and completely behind me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Through it all, one thing was constant: a factory job that was his ticket to the middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “The landed gentry and the aristocrats hunt, you see, and we liberal middle classes fume about it. We want to take their silly little toys away.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When poor single mothers had the option of remaining out of the labor force on welfare, the middle and upper middle class tended to view them with a certain impatience, if not disgust. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z You might imagine, from a comfortable distance, that people who live, year in and year out, on $6 to $10 an hour have discovered some survival stratagems unknown to the middle class. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Here’s part of the narration for a speech he gave in October 2008, where he went on to outline his “rescue plan” for America’s middle class. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For her, Pedro moved out of his neighborhood into a downtown apartment, thereby, without intending to do so, ascending to the middle class to which he had never aspired. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z While her employers were extravagantly wealthy, the Saedi family was considered lower middle class at best. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “And the fact that we’re raising a niece and nephew, that’s kind of a flag that we weren’t always middle class, just like saying you went to Berea College tells everyone you were poor.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z This is the story of her twelve-year slog to the middle class and of how hard it is to stay there. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Over the course of a year that could come to over $30,000, enough to approach the lower middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I rambled:... the relationship of the novel to the rise of the middle class in eighteenth-century Europe. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Threepenny Opera was a kind of Trainspotting for the late 1920s, presenting the middle classes with a grimy, warts-and-all vision of the alienated, nihilistic underclass. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The notion was controversial in some evangelical circles but became widespread nonetheless, and it made the Assemblies’ faith more compatible with an upwardly mobile middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They were also encouraged not to settle for old-fashioned and “bourgeois” gender roles—“bourgeois” being a catchall term for the upper middle classes of Imperial Russia who’d aspired to wealth and luxury. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She has gone from welfare statistic in the early 1990s to credit card-carrying member of the middle class, a woman for whom there are now few statistics, so rare has her experience been. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Globalization and technological change have shuttered factories, killing jobs that were once stepping-stones to the middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In just a few years she moved up the ladder from rural poverty to the high- achieving circles of the middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “This is a reminder that you can be middle class but in a very unstable situation.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The middle class fell into poverty, and people became so desperate that the crime rate went up. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z A prominent leader of this elite black middle class was even quoted in a Johannesburg daily as saying that he didn’t believe many blacks wanted one person, one vote in South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She, Nicholas, and her four other children were living in a second-floor walk-up in Englewood, a crime-burdened neighborhood abandoned first by the white middle class and then by the black middle class that succeeded it. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Yet if you do the arithmetic, these people are earning nearly $40,000 a year, which makes them officially “middle class.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Merchandisers, for example, might look at two golfers, one lower middle class, the other wealthy, and know that they read the same golf magazine, see the same advertisements, and possibly buy the same quality driver. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Bill Gates, who started off squarely in the upper middle class, made a fortune without finishing college, drawing three aces. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z A family squarely in the middle class may own a flat- screen television, drive a BMW, and indulge a taste for expensive chocolate. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Face cards in a few categories may land a player in the upper middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Overall, 1 percent described themselves as upper class, 15 percent as upper middle class, 42 percent as middle, 35 percent as working, and 7 percent as lower. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “I may look middle class,” said McClellan, who is forty- five, with a square, honest face and a barrel chest. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The Hague gallery is furnished like the home of someone from the new wealthy middle class: with upholstered wooden furniture, fancy, well made, and ornate. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Will Wilson fits squarely in the city’s middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “We’re not rich but we are comfortable and we are middle class and our son is better off than we are.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Still, race continues to shape the experience of being middle class, sociologists say. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In addition, I would studiously avoid sitting near the middle class in lunch counters and on public transportation, maintaining the intrinsic honesty and grandeur of my being. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Or perhaps it's simply a response to hard times in America and England, where financial straits are threatening the very existence of the middle class. The Avett Brothers bring the campfire wave to Everett 2011-07-14T15:01:05Z A growing middle class inhabits new high-rise apartment buildings and drives Hondas and Kias, a lifestyle that was just emerging when I left. What a Trip: Coming home to Bogota When her middle granddaughter, Lady Edith, frets that she will end up a spinster, Lady Violet says briskly, “Don’t be defeatist, Dear, it’s very middle class.” Critic?s Notebook: ?Downton Abbey? Stokes Flames for Season 2 - Review 2012-01-06T17:33:23Z She's always worked with Congress to try to get things done for the middle class. "We do have power": "Queens of Resistance" books profile the politicians who inspire us most – women 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The developing world, meanwhile, will work to bridge the food gap by embracing the promise of biotechnology which the middle classes in the developed world will have assumed that they had the luxury to reject. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z The numbers of expensive imported models on the roads is also rising as a new middle class emerges. Wider image: Life after death for the 'Love Bug' in Ethiopia 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z He was reviled for trying to unite workers, black and white, and he was further reviled by the black elite, in terms of black middle class at that time, because he started talking about money. Killer Mike on America: "We've failed, but we can change it" 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z It also became something else: a reliable ladder rung for reaching the middle class, a pathway to the American Dream. Drain the swamp? Not if this guy can help it. 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Without a passion for music, “Vinyl” becomes a distracted show about the difficulties of being upper middle class and wealthy, which is a story I am frankly quite tired of. “Vinyl” falls short: Too many cooks and too much noise override the spirit of the era 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z “On the whole, it was middle class young people who had the luxury of dropping out. It was a precursor to the whole gap year thing.” The hippy is back: not so cool if you remember it the first time round 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z “We’re just really lucky that it’s a timely revival, that we’re talking about the middle class and the struggle of the middle class and that’s as relevant as ever,” Gilbert said. Sara Gilbert: ‘The Conners’ works because it’s relatable 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z By that standard, a landmark was reached in 1999: For the first time, more than half of black Americans were considered “middle class.” Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z The game plan of Lincolnomics was to grow a prosperous middle class, not to enrich owners of factories and plantations. How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The family was still middle class, but it was also hard up. LS Lowry: the people's artist comes in from the cold 2013-06-08T23:05:10Z “It also helped,” he writes, “that I was educated, white, middle class, relatively affluent and I didn’t have a mental illness.” A Filmmaker Put Away for Tax Fraud Takes Us Inside a British Prison 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z LLOYD: Jay and Gloria may be wealthy; the other two families are solidly middle class. ArtsBeat: Your ‘Modern Family’ Questions Answered 2012-12-10T19:00:22Z Serfdom, relatively secure but contingent on the generosity of the families, is the middle class of the Lazarus universe. The comic book “Lazarus” is a frightening vision of where America could be headed 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The economic growth that we have witnessed in non-Western countries over the past 20 years has brought with it the formation of a middle class. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z Harder to shake off will be his habit of seeking total control, as political rivals begin to gain status and a rising middle class demands more political freedom. Putin pledges unity on return to Kremlin 2012-05-07T11:52:03Z While in 1969 Visalia did have a small professional middle class, today its residents, especially those who moved there recently, are overwhelmingly unskilled. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z Yet in reality, she writes, cohabitation has always been more widespread among interracial and minority couples than it is among the white middle class. One marriage under god 2013-02-02T20:00:00Z From the start there was something inherently middle class about the whole enterprise. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z Victorian technology caused a major cultural shift and brought the middle class to the fore through media, manufacturing, capitalist marketing, entertainment. Ottessa Moshfegh: By the Book 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z But is this level of wellness only attainable to a few middle class high earners with the income – and some might say credulity – to afford the high spending? Wellness: just expensive hype, or worth the cost? 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z The rise of a strong middle class means more money floating around and more chaos and more opportunity. What if I flunk the gaokao? 2013-03-08T01:00:00Z What if they're not part of the "artistic middle class" touted by TopSpin and other online music marketers, who consider themselves entrepreneurs and not just artists who create art for art's sake? Behind the music: The winners and losers of social networking promotion 2010-09-23T17:02:00Z Q. Is it right that the middle class is growing in Lagos and that it is changing the face of shopping? My Lagos: Duro Olowu's Home Town 2012-11-14T11:30:18Z In the current era of near-double-digit unemployment, the show forecloses any real pathway to a viable middle class life. Forget the Downturn; Punish the Lazybones 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z Catch your breath after shopping by joining Burma’s older middle class who have retained a taste for afternoon tea and worldly conversation. 36 Hours in Yangon, Myanmar 2014-02-07T15:22:35Z It's kinda like India, where there's an upper class and a poverty class and no middle class. The Oscars: Who calls the shots? 2011-02-24T21:45:00Z Berry grew up middle class, the son of a deacon and a teacher, in St. Louis; when he was a boy, because of Jim Crow laws, the Fox Theatre wouldn’t let him in. Chuck Berry at Ninety: Full Speed Ahead 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z But I sent the first chapters through, and the publisher said 'this is not the kind of material that invites the English middle classes to dream of moving to Italy'! A life in writing: Tim Parks 2012-07-27T21:55:02Z A half-century ago, “the middle class was stronger,” and the political parties “weren’t as far apart as they are now. Society, generally, was less unequal and less polarized than now.” How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z The residual Puritanism of the American middle class also helped make them susceptible to food fears. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z It was the organ of a group we don't hear much about, "the quietly aspiring black middle class". Next week's radio: from Shelagh Fogerty to Ebony: Black On White On Black 2013-06-08T05:00:08Z “Are you saying you liked her better when she was more middle class?” the doctor asks. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Rumble With Lord G! 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z New York, with the rise in real-estate prices and the disappearance of manufacture, business, and thus, of the middle class, has become New York Land. David Mamet and the battle for Broadway 2010-04-11T20:30:00Z The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society. “We should be working more with the Mexicans”: Former “border czar” shares real facts about immigration 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Americans have changed their dining habits: The country’s upper class has soured on paying $15 to $20 per meal for bland bar fare, and the chain sustaining middle class can no longer afford it. Red Lobster and Waffles 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z It was for middle-class people aspiring to be culturally upper-middle class; my parents were refugees from Hitler’s Europe just striving to be middle class. First Encounters with the Art and Presence of Saul Steinberg 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z When you're saying these things about the black middle class, there's part of me that wants to say that's not true. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s a word that struck me as very middle class. Firecrackers, a striptease scandal and more moments of change from the Hammer's 'Radical Women' 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The creator of NPR’s “Planet Money” podcast argues that hope is not lost for the middle class, but the paths to success have changed. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Gymnastics Abuse to the New Economy 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z They were replaced by a middle class — professionals, government bureaucrats, business owners, said Enrique Krauze, a prominent Mexican historian and writer. Mexico City as the Director of ‘Roma’ Remembers It (and Hears It) 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z “But they don’t want us to assimilate with the middle class and the rich class.” Will “alt-labor” replace unions? 2013-01-29T20:45:00Z "I like his politics, I like his Obama-care and he's for the middle classes," says one. Rewind radio: Richard Bacon; Tony Livesey; Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show – review 2012-11-11T00:05:52Z Widening inequality, a shrinking middle class, global warming, the corruption of our democracy by big money – all of these, and more, must be addressed. Robert Reich: “Cynicism is a self-fulfilling prophecy” 2013-05-14T15:58:00Z They were the arbiters of American theatre, for American theatre would reach the hinterlands only via Broadway, and the Broadway play would fail or succeed upon its ability to appeal to the middle class. David Mamet and the battle for Broadway 2010-04-11T20:30:00Z The mania for invention in mid-19th century England stemmed from a confluence of socio-economic factors, including industrialization, expansion of rail travel, migration to cities, growth of the middle class and an increase in leisure. ‘Inventions That Didn’t Change the World,’ by Julie Halls 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Some may argue that this doesn't matter; that here, for once, the tax burden that falls so substantially on the middle classes funds a middle-class activity. Museums should appeal to the heart 2010-06-28T09:59:00Z The middle classes down below are into the same stuff, but with cheaper booze in more crowded apartments. Review: In ‘High-Rise,’ Tom Hiddleston and Class War Hit a Low Point 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z "I was like, 'Oh, God, I need my coffee and to be all small and coastal and weird and middle class and liberal,'" she said. Debra Granik tells a Vietnam veteran's tale in 'Stray Dog' documentary 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z As in many other urban neighbourhoods, however, the middle class are moving into Harlem. A$AP Rocky: 'We're grungy but we live like rock stars' 2012-06-01T23:04:00Z It was also the accompanying political repression, censorship, cronyism and bad economic and cultural policies, which the author underestimates, that alienated the modern middle class along with the poor. Nazila Fathi’s ‘The Lonely War’ Is a Memoir of Iran 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z "Sunset" ultimately is a game about life on the margins — of war, of the middle class and of romance. 'Sunset': An engaging game about war's toll on a housekeeper 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Of course, the defining idea of a middle class is not really one’s bank balance but instead a set of values. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z That G.M shouldn’t be moving jobs to third-world countries and exploiting them while destroying the middle class of this country? Michael Moore on His Movie ‘Where to Invade Next’ 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z We struggled to make ends meet growing up, and now I am middle class. When ‘Gentefied’ Straddles More Than One Culture, It Feels Real 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z AF People are mad because in the last 40 years or so, life has become harder for the middle class. Al Franken and Olivia Wilde: Calling a Lie a Lie 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z That whole business about elevating factory workers to the middle class? A Worker Shortage Is Forcing Restaurants to Get Creative 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Early lighthouse keepers were paid "a lower middle class wage." The evolution of lighthouse keepers, the isolating yet romantic profession 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Even today, more than a decade later and four years into a severe economic downturn, as people continue to slide into poverty from the middle classes, the theory maintains its grip. The poor: America?s piggy bank 2012-05-17T14:31:00Z PG: It reminds me of your great line: “I was brought up on the ragged edge of the middle class.” Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z In fact, the United States, more than most nations, is almost entirely dualistic; on one hand there is the bourgeoisie or “middle class,” and on the other, the service industry. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z You always talk very quietly in England, at least the middle classes do. Kurt Schwitters: the pop art pioneer who brought order to chaos 2013-01-19T09:01:37Z Festivals have tended to become more expensive, corporate and mainstream with older more middle class crowds that probably attract far less intensive policing. Revealed: types and quantities of drugs seized by police at UK music festivals 2012-05-20T23:00:00Z And the further you move up into the higher echelons of the middle class, the less you consider those below in real ways, the more remote the dramas of their lives seem. David Simon, J. Cole, Patricia Lockwood and Others on Social Issues as Manifested in Art 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z If you want to see what American cities are going to be like when we’re done reversing the postwar expansion of the middle class, South Shore’s a good place to look. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Opinions: Jimmy Hoffa helped create the American middle class. ‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa. A lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Architecture is a creative industry, but it’s also reflective of shifting paradigms of the middle class. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z You argue that the middle class, unlike the rich and the poor, is not a natural class but was built and sustained through some kind of intervention. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z The Aesthete’s flamboyant style — which was mocked in some circles — fascinated not only the bourgeoisie but also the growing middle classes, who recognized the need to be surrounded by beauty in their homes. In Transit: London Show Celebrates Stylish Aesthete 2011-04-22T10:00:56Z It seems that one of the pivotal challenges American education faces today inheres in how the middle classes manage to demand educational equality. SAT’s right answers are all wrong 2013-05-20T21:11:00Z For Whigs, the way forward was to offer reform, just enough to detach the middle classes from their alliance with working-class reformers and so hopefully to prevent an explosion. Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser – review 2013-05-03T07:00:17Z The earnings of the great American middle class fueled the great American expansion for three decades after World War II. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z I am still nowhere near being able to call myself solidly middle class, and subsequently still not casual about spending money. "You want a rich lady mouth": Could fixing my teeth fix my life? 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Change, many Saudis say, is inevitable because market forces will oblige the powers that be to adapt to a huge population under 25 and a growing middle class educated abroad and steeped in Western values. | The TV Watch: Saudi Arabia: Ramadan TV Gently Pushes Saudi Boundaries 2012-08-20T02:22:34Z As consumer debt hit record highs, banks raised interest rates, squeezing the new middle class. With the 2016 Summer Olympics just a year away, what Brazil can learn from World Cup 2014 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z My audience, mainly white and middle class, was not amused. Rachida Lamrabet: 'Literature helps when you are trying to form an identity' 2013-03-22T17:57:44Z “Miss Juneteenth” isn’t about that history but the contemporary African American struggle to remain in the middle class. New this week: Neil Young, ‘Miss Juneteenth,’ Padma Lakshmi 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z When I would go to other cities in the country, there was not a visible black middle class. Coaches for the office? An organization takes a page out of the sports world to grow talent. 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The British middle class is "obsessed by what they call bad language", he said at the Cannes Film Festival. Ken Loach bemoans censors' cuts 2012-05-22T15:42:09Z The scholar David Matless describes a rise in motoring and walking tours that enabled more city dwellers to travel to the countryside, including members of the working and middle classes. The Mysterious Case of the Park Poet 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Drew's anger would seem to have its roots in his upbringing in east London – somewhere in the "void" between working and middle class. Plan B's new Motown sound 2010-04-10T23:08:00Z There was money-drunk decadence at the top, raw immiseration at the bottom, and little else: no middle ground—or middle class, for that matter—no mixed bags, no flawed and compromised agency. The Stories About Abu Dhabi That Are Rarely Told 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Sensation and shock are dirty words, crude populism frowned upon now that modern art is the favourite entertainment of the well-heeled middle class. Mat Collishaw: still sensational 2013-04-26T15:30:00Z But there are other reasons not to saddle Hogg with the title of laureate of the middle class. Posh pushovers: why do films squeeze out the middle classes? 2011-02-25T15:22:36Z Discomfort, though, is exactly what Perry pinpoints most acutely in his depiction of the middle classes. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z The Bordeaux we see written about in wine magazines is what we might today call wines for “the 1-percenters” — or at least the upper-upper middle class. Why you should go for the Bordeaux that aren’t collector’s items 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Inside Out plays out inside the head of Riley, the 11-year-old daughter of a middle class, white family whose move from Minnesota to San Francisco causes a quake in her psyche. Disney-Pixar's John Lasseter: 'It's very important for us to have female, ethnic characters' 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z A. Enforcement may have looked lighthearted in New York, especially for the middle class, who drank in protected speakeasies. Lisa McGirr Discusses ‘The War on Alcohol’ and the Legacy of Prohibition 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z This is a Belgian film about working class reality, not romanticised Hollywood trash about the angst of poor little middle class waifs. 'Stand by Me prepared me for reality': readers' favourite coming of age films 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Khattab, whose grandfather showed a Swedish king the sights in the early 20th century, said tourism was “the nerve system of the middle class.” Egypt’s tourism industry grows desperate amid long turmoil 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z The benefits of homeownership swelled the ranks of the postwar middle class, transforming the economy while entrenching residential segregation. Two Histories of Financiers Profiting From Real Estate While Homeowners Go Belly Up 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z This exhaustively researched account traces the devastating effects of fracking on a Pennsylvania town: illnesses, toxic waste, a collapsing middle class. New in Paperback: ‘Amity and Prosperity,’ ‘The Great Believers’ 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z He’s the animal spirit of a political movement that’s draining the middle class, breaking the joists of civil society and pushing the planet toward ecological calamity. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Comedies featuring solidly middle class Black families on network TV and cable are far fewer in number now than in the post-"Cosby Show" years when they flourished on Fox, UPN and The WB. "Our Kind of People" and "The Wonder Years": two aspirational visions of Black life and prosperity 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z But in the ’60s and ’70s, suddenly the middle class is being associated with TV dinners, and all Americans somehow want to rediscover their roots. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Kente is almost as odd and strange and alien to the middle class Romanian city folk as he is to the American audience. "They play Santa Claus": Humanitarians tested by a stuck Land Rover in savage comedy "Intregalde" 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z All right, some of them did lead disorderly lives by middle class standards, involving drinking, brawling, and out-of-wedlock babies. The poor: America?s piggy bank 2012-05-17T14:31:00Z "Latin America is a region where middle class is very small," Alazraki Jr recently told Associated Press. Has Mexico's film industry been helped or harmed by Hollywood? 2013-05-01T16:38:06Z The experience of motherhood portrayed is very narrow – almost entirely middle class, and, I’m guessing, almost entirely white. Motherlode: Talking About Torn 2011-06-21T15:52:15Z It captures the middle classes of Mumbai with still, quiet clarity and tells a tragicomic and tale about modern family life. Nikesh Shukla's top 10 Anglo-Asian books 2010-12-22T11:17:38Z Two earners have become a necessity for maintaining anything close to a comfortable middle class status. America’s miserable economy may be ruining your love life 2014-02-16T01:00:00Z The Gibsons were wealthy South Carolina landowners, the Spencers were Kentucky farmers and the Walls were among Washington's black middle class. 'The Invisible Line': three families' histories of 'passing' from black to white 2011-03-10T01:55:24Z With polls showing most Americans unhappy with his economic leadership, Obama's re-election hopes could hinge on his ability to convince voters that Republicans represent the rich, not the middle class. Obama offers $3 trillion debt plan 2011-09-19T16:19:02Z Wallop claims that the Guardian – at least going by mentions of such phrases as "middle class" – is the most class-obsessed of all the newspapers. Consumed: How Shopping Fed the Class System by Harry Wallop – review 2013-01-18T09:01:01Z He deals a lot with marriage, male-female relations and the strains of suburban life in a way that led a German critic to dub him "the Molière of the middle classes". Absurd Person Singular, 40 years on 2012-05-25T21:55:04Z “Yes, it’s important,” she said at last, “but not as important as our economy and what’s happened to our middle class.” Polls show Americans distrust the media. But talk to them, and it’s a very different story. 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z However, they were strongly supportive of federal social insurance programs such as Social Security and Medicare, believing these programs to be beneficial for the broader middle class. The Donald’s radical revolution: The historical roots of the Trump phenomenon 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z And in this new book, he lucidly expounds on the erosion of the West’s middle classes, the dysfunction among its political and economic elites and the consequences for America and the world. In ‘The Retreat of Western Liberalism,’ How Democracy Is Defeating Itself 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Growing up in the 1950s, in the black middle class of Clearwater, Fla., he often felt pressure, he said, “to be a certain way, that I needed to represent all black people.” Can Dance Make a More Just America? Donald Byrd Is Working on It 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Shishe addicts in Iran are mostly urban, middle class and young, experts say. Methamphetamine use soars in Iran as lifestyles speed up 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z As in the previous twenty years, large numbers of people were flocking to buy houses in the suburbs and climbing into the middle classes. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z Growing up, as she told him, ‘all I saw was poverty, discrimination and protest images. Nobody ever told me that there was a black middle class.’ Theaster Gates Is a Toast of the Fashion and Art Circuit 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Members of the Black middle class go to better schools, get better medical care and taste the American Dream. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z And he is here, among what he calls the new upwardly mobile middle class in a new development called Kings Hill in Kent. TV review: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry 2012-06-12T22:15:01Z Traditions are fading fast as larger numbers of India's burgeoning middle class flock to holiday in the tranquillity of the lunar-like terrain. Villagers in India's Himalayan landscape grapple with tourism boom 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z A new paper presented at the British Sociological Association's annual conference has accused the liberal, Guardian-reading middle classes of asserting their cultural superiority through their choice of standup. Top 10 middle-class comedians: in condescending order 2010-04-12T12:03:00Z White men bickering in the countryside, dealing with a sinking luxury yacht, turning into a filmmaker as a middle class boy in the mid 20th century. With 2023 Oscar nominations, women are forced to take a big step backward 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z That injunction usually means — to use the condescending parlance of another time — “little people,” unobtrusive and unhappy members of the working and middle classes who are anonymous to the point of invisibility. Spring Performance: On Broadway, a Penchant for Celebrity Biographies in Song 2012-02-23T22:15:24Z Ms. Abo Rebieh, a member of the educated middle class, found herself imprisoned with women who were barely literate, and mostly arrested at random. Syria’s Women Prisoners, Drawn by an Artist Who Was One 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z This edition of “20/20” explores issues confronting the middle class and possible solutions. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Sneaky Pete’ and ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In the following decades, Detroit witnessed several key shifts: the emergence of a sizable black middle class and the arrival of Middle Eastern immigrants. Detroit Institute of Arts' New Gallery: Islamic Works 2010-03-09T00:45:00Z “Chinese people,” he said, “not supposed to just work very hard, they should also enjoy life. … What the future middle class lacks is quality content.” With 'Avatar'-themed show, Cirque du Soleil sets sights on China, again 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Obama's speech is intended to serve as a bookend to the major speech he delivered in December in Kansas, where he said the American middle class is at a "make-or-break moment." Obama to vow to 'fight obstruction with action' 2012-01-24T23:00:00Z In 19th century America, a new urban middle class developed along with a transformation within the American home. The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z The Victorian middle classes increasingly demanded a more informal style of living – suburban houses with their own private back gardens. The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan - review 2012-05-18T21:55:01Z This initial comparison between the outsiders and the comfortable middle class is sharp stuff, and Ng has great fun making not-so-subtle digs at the more parochial characters, balancing their myopia with small cracks of insight. Review | Celeste Ng grapples with both sides of the debate over interracial adoptions 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z She went in and did research to figure out what was happening, how the banks were taking advantage of middle class Americans, which set a lot of Black people, especially, back. "We do have power": "Queens of Resistance" books profile the politicians who inspire us most – women 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z On the heels of Daffy’s and Filene’s Basement, such a demise may indicate a declining middle class, or a retail landscape transformed by the Internet and Goliath-like chains, or some combination. Loehmann’s Stores Close for Business 2014-02-26T23:27:16Z My mother clung to it — “We are middle class” — because our grasp was so tenuous. Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z The women, who are primarily young, educated and middle class, felt the need to protest what they viewed as Putin’s brutal, corrupt and totalitarian rule. Pussy Riot on Trial: The Case Against the Anti-Putin Feminist Rockers 2012-07-31T12:00:36Z The 36-year-old Accra resident works with a Chinese import company, putting him in the middle class. Faith puts Ghana at heart of global Christianity 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z They are Jews whose ascent into the American middle class is shadowed by generational memories of Cossacks and Nazis in the old world and less lethal brushes with antisemitism in their new home. ‘Armageddon Time’ Review: Hard Lessons About Life in America 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The plumage of white gloves symbolized the repressed psychology of the Black middle class, consumed with respectability. Lorraine O’Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z This was at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance - a cultural, social, and artistic explosion amongst the African-American middle class, which had strong links to the civil rights movement. Harlem's Apollo Theater turns 80 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z The middle class, no longer a majority, is disappearing. 2015: Astonishing for mostly the wrong reasons and fated to be a hazy memory 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Daniels, at the Memphis River Parks Partnership, and Carl Person, the president of the Brooks, are leading figures in the city’s vibrant Black upper middle class. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Aristocratic in origin, high culture accommodated itself to the rise of the middle class while remaining elitist and complicit in inequality. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Spokesman Jay Carney noted that under the president's own plan, he himself "would pay more in taxes while ensuring we cut taxes for the middle class and those trying to get in it." Obama's federal tax burden drops 2012-04-13T16:14:00Z Some people had access to that, because they were more middle class like Virginia Woolf and Jane. "Mothering Sunday" director on challenging politics through intimacy: "Nudity levels out classes" 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z I liked the associations with both suburbia and enclosure, the Dursleys being so smugly middle class, and so determinedly separate from the wizarding world. Pottermore's Pioneers: Exploring J.K. Rowling's New Site 2011-08-22T10:10:00Z Meat consumption is expected to double by 2050 as the middle class grows in China, Brazil, India and across Africa. Italy is set to ban lab-grown meat — here’s why that might be a mistake 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z And for Thais, entering the middle class is often about strolling down a clear sidewalk to work, dining in air-conditioned comfort and going home to a modern condo. Where to Find Bangkok’s Best Street Food While You Can 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z I think Liz given her experience would simultaneously recognize the middle class self-loathing that type of snide judgement stems from and be amused by it. Liz Smith, Longtime Queen of Tabloid Gossip Columns, Dies at 94 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Maybe a little shy, seldom rich, they were sometimes middle class, sometimes below. I managed a Washington, D.C., brothel: sex secrets from the nation’s capital 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Being sincere is a privilege of the middle class — to be aligned with your emotions — which may be why I was able to become a filmmaker. "Mothering Sunday" director on challenging politics through intimacy: "Nudity levels out classes" 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z In another bestseller, America: What Went Wrong?, two journalists piled up alarming statistics about the enriching of the privileged during the 1980s and accused politicians of nothing less than “dismantling the middle class.” Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z “We were the epitome of black middle class,” she said. We All Need a Gammy in Our Lives Right Now 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z He suggested the government has a role to play as arbiter, to ensure that those working hard "and fighting to get into the middle class" stand a fair chance. Iowa up first in economy-themed campaign 2012-01-03T03:23:00Z “The result is that blacks are losing the foothold they had in the middle class,” says James Parrott, chief economist of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research center in New York City. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z We grew up lower middle class or blue collar ... so that was the world we lived in, the schools we went to and the friends we had.” Spokane native Jess Walter releases short-story collection 2013-02-12T18:06:23Z I'm very middle class, white collar, professional, highly educated. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Stay with ‘handsome’ verbal abuser, or leave and be alone? 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Mara grew up middle class in Los Angeles and Kansas City, Mo., and upon graduation from Northwestern, worked as a production assistant on the Fox sitcom “The Sinbad Show.” The Black Sitcom Steps Out of the ’90s and Gets Real 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Obama’s sharpest points preview the election year narrative to come, about an endangered middle class suffering under an unfair system. Obama calls for millionaires' tax in address 2012-01-25T02:33:00Z Where Antonioni’s film evoked the metaphysical malaise of Italy’s leisure class in that country’s postwar boom, “About Elly” depicts the strains between strict Islamic traditions and modernism within Iran’s affluent, sophisticated middle class. Review: In ‘About Elly,’ a Middle Class Enjoying Itself Is Engulfed in Change 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Growing up in Clearwater, Florida's black middle class, he was a studious teenager already mastering classical flute. Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z I think there is a wave now of people realising that prison isn’t the answer, but I still see a rudimentary fixation on guilt by people from the middle class. Rachel Kushner meets Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I'm so glad I'm a novelist and not a politician’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z For there in the little garden, surrounded on all sides by the writers' pavilions, was the Edinburgh middle class at repose. How I lost my festival virginity to Howard 2010-08-21T23:09:00Z Many Sudanese people, particularly in the middle class, believe that the country was in a better place during the early years of independence. Sudan’s Uprising, Bashir’s Fall, and my Father’s Passing 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z In other words, Obama violated his tax pledge to the middle class, whatever he claims to think about the individual mandate. Obama Administration: Obamacare's Individual Mandate 'is a Tax' 2012-07-06T16:15:36Z You see, he was very, very popular with middle class audiences. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z Tolkien's work, he writes, is nothing more than "a pernicious confirmation of the values of a morally bankrupt middle class", something not so far from the fascism he had agitated against as a young activist. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z To most Americans, this middle class of the creative class might as well be invisible. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z The books trace the lives of two women from their childhoods in poverty in Naples into the middle class against the backdrop of Italian postwar history, exploring the complexities of female friendship. Who Is the Real Elena Ferrante? Italian Journalist Reveals His Answer 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z "It's terrible but I remember looking at my father's wage slip to see if he'd earned enough to be middle class." Philip Hoare: a life in writing 2013-06-21T15:37:01Z The conservative Daily Telegraph broadsheet took umbrage at Rowling's skewering of the middle class. Rowling's adult novel lacks magic, some critics say 2012-09-27T10:54:26Z He rails that it's time to put an end to the "revolting paternalism of the white, middle class, 'leftist' intellectuals" in their castigation of his depiction of the symbols of Islam. A year after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, slain editor Charb makes his case in 'Open Letter' 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z She was inspired by the outdoor laundry, Dhobi Ghat, in her adopted hometown of Mumbai, where dhobi's wash the clothes of the rich, middle class and poor in rows of concrete pens. Director gives Mumbai fresh face in film "Dhobi Ghat" 2011-01-21T22:53:12Z “There are huge opportunities with the rising middle classes in developing markets with tens of millions of potential new customers ready to be engaged.” The Marketing Power of Sports’ Stars 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The wonder of the wonder rug may be that as a relic of America’s shrinking middle class, it managed to last this long. The End of the Wonder Rug 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z For much of its history, it’s been a country with a stable middle class. World Cup: 'Golazo!' author on soccer passion in Latin America 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The National Register of Historic Places recognized one of the steel homes in 2012, saying it demonstrated “the possibilities for rapidly assembled and affordable homes for the middle class.” Donald Wexler, modernist architect in California, dies at 89 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z The top players would warm up with the “rabbits”, as they referred to us – like aristocrats talking to gamekeepers – while the middle-ranking players stuck to each other, like the middle classes. Flirting with Ava Gardner | Taki 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z A swelling music scene in the colonial capital, Léopoldville, catering for a rising African middle class, was one result. The king of the rumba 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Everything that wasn't white middle class wasn't there. 'Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles': Rick Prelinger's new film of old home movies and studio outtakes 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z "And 'middle class', 'politics' and 'gay' weren't exactly buzzwords for a pop star." 'Where I'm where I've always wanted to be' 2012-06-16T23:05:17Z Ruthie, separated from her husband, is scrabbling to keep her toehold in the middle class after being forced out of her job at a local museum by a conniving board member. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The writers conclude with a cogent plan for substantial, specific changes to rehabilitate the American dream and rescue the middle class. 'Betrayal of the American Dream': short-term gain, long-term pain 2012-08-22T19:00:06Z The school is quite a liberal and inclusive place now but at the time it was totally white, male, aspiring middle class. Jeremy Deller's visions of England 2013-06-01T22:00:01Z Which brings me to the other important point here – that as anyone in it will know, there's middle class and then there's middle class. Posh pushovers: why do films squeeze out the middle classes? 2011-02-25T15:22:36Z Zell likens it to the U.S. in the 1950s, when a large nation self-sufficient in everything from food to fuel was creating an economically powerful new middle class. The Optimist 2011-01-26T23:00:00Z And even if Franzen's territory remains, by and large, the American middle class, now Updike has gone no one writes about it better. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z Public workers – cops, firefighters, nurses, teachers, paramedics, sanitation workers – once were the proud backbone of the middle class. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z If you really examine their finances, I’m not certain that they’re middle class. Sarah Jessica Parker on 'Divorce' and 'Sex and the City' 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Now only the engine roar from LAX keeps El Segundo’s many lovely Craftsman bungalows within reach of whatever passes for the middle class anymore. Critic at Large David Kipen on El Segundo in literature 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Syms grew up in Altadena, a quiet town abutting the mountains east of Los Angeles known as a retreat for roughneck millionaires and an enclave for the Black middle class. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Their brand of concern for the poor and dispossessed would be instantly construed as an attempt to pick the pockets of the middle class; they’d be booed off the stage.” Books of The Times: ‘The New Mind of the South,’ by Tracy Thompson 2013-04-23T17:04:03Z Its subject matter is anything and everything, a peevish interrogation of contemporary upper middle class overexamined life presented via a grab bag of previously published articles. In defense of Katie Roiphe 2012-09-04T19:52:00Z The concept of home looms large for Ryan and her family — as it does now for all Americans, not just those who are African-American and lower middle class like Ryan’s family. ‘This Is How It Is Now’: Ramona Quimby, Meet Ryan Hart 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “It was quite ironic later, because when Indonesia became very well off again after independence, tempeh was considered food for poor people, and the middle class and rich looked down on it,” she said. Weeknight Vegetarian: Make 2015 the Year of Tempeh 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z “There was something there that the solid life of the British middle class would never give,” he says. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z These businesses reflected an awakening of health consciousness among the European middle class in the early 20th century. Romania’s Springs Tap a Region’s Deep History 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z I didn’t feel that I had much to add to the policy debates about problems like inequality, polarization, the hollowing out of the middle class, institutional decay. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z While a new black middle class has taken root in the country, income inequality is growing, not shrinking. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z We have started these multiplexes, the middle classes are coming in to see what the studios produce, and a new breed of directors is changing the face of the film industry. ArtsBeat: Off the Couch, Into the Multiplexes: Irrfan Khan on His New Big-Screen Roles 2010-12-06T17:13:00Z “But play this movie in a middle class or poor area and people are angry and yelling at the screen. They get it.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Gloria: A Life’ and ‘My Spy’ 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z I talk to business people and bankers and economists all the time, who are like, “Wait a minute, without growth, the middle class can’t keep up with inflation!” Don’t blame the Google bus riders: The company “doesn’t look at the employees as any more human than it does the residents of San Francisco” 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z He becomes especially animated when talking about what he sees as the overinflated concerns of the Black middle class being given more attention than those of poor and working-class Black people. A Black Republican tries to bring in Black voters to the GOP 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z And as a middle-class person, what has he learned about the plays about the middle classes? Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z She describes her upbringing as middle class but from the vantage point of a blue-collar clock-puncher, it reads as well-to-do. Diana Taylor doesn’t have a name for her relationship with Mike Bloomberg. She just wants him to win. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z It doesn’t need to be the tough guy, middle class, young, white. British adventurer preaches the gospel of spontaneous travel — even for the unadventurous 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Now it’s certainly true that a good education is still the best ticket – other than inheriting wealth – to entering the middle class. Can schools fix our economy? 2012-08-05T12:00:00Z The leading characters in these plays were members of an upper middle class of Anglo-Saxon descent and dwindling affluence and influence. A Patrician Older Gentleman Morphs Into an Angry Young Man 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z As Mr. Moore visits European schools, workplaces, hospitals and prisons, the movie builds into a cri de coeur about America’s weakening social contract: the widening inequality gap, the disappearing middle class and a military-based economy. Review: ‘Where to Invade Next,’ Michael Moore’s Latest Documentary 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z R Mutt's exhibit was deemed too offensive and vulgar on the grounds that it was a urinal, a subject that was not considered a suitable topic for discussion among America's puritan middle classes. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z Take the two couples in “God of Carnage,” her satire about the middle class and marriage, who transform into primitive creatures during a span of 90 minutes. A Playwright of Few Words 2011-05-24T13:25:00Z The term soon became linked with an emerging European middle class, and, in the eyes of the artistic Who’s Who, its celebration of mediocrity. Notes on cocktail camp: From tiki to the boozy juice box, a celebration of the unstuffy drink 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z “The crisis of the middle class and its effective dissolution is felt throughout the country, but is rarely dramatized,” he said. Cable-crime shows explore rural America’s underbelly 2014-02-27T21:15:33Z With its hundreds of millions of rural poor clamoring to join the middle class, China craves scale. The Untold Technological Revolution Sweeping Through Rural China 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Eschewing dance routines and R&B, focusing instead on fashion "scenarios" redolent of a Jack Wills catalogue, 1D were a novel thing – a boyband aggressively styled as middle class. One Direction – review 2013-04-06T23:06:21Z I loved 'Girls' dearly because it captured one thing about being a middle class 23 year old perfectly. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z According to Imbibe Magazine, as the Industrial Revolution catalyzed the idea of an American middle class, sales of sparkling wine soared from 6 million bottles in 1850 to 28 million by 1900. Why do we drink champagne on New Year's Eve? 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z In his work, Shakespeare expresses the values of the rising middle class, assailing Homeric ideals, dismissing religion, deconstructing and undermining the heroic. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Even if you think you are in the middle class. In the thrilling "Workforce," an exploited construction worker takes the ultimate revenge 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z After the play won the Pulitzer, the Black Arts poet and playwright Amiri Baraka castigated Fuller as representing “the most backward sector of the black middle class.” Charles Fuller Never Expected Broadway. At 80, He’s Arrived. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Spring Glen Grammar School was suburban middle class and pale. Garlic with Everything 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Pinckney grew up in a middle-class family, in the 1960s, when being black and middle class often meant being accused of “trying to act white,” he writes. Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Ironically, there is no clearer reminder of the fact minority communities have yet to enter the middle class than a trip to the theatre. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z The working middle class also grew in size, leading to a greater need for fast, long-lasting, ready-to-eat meals. We’ve always eaten processed foods — but here’s when they got unhealthy 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z This helped create a middle class, but a reliance on growing things was replaced by the canned-and-shrink-wrapped gospel of postwar America. Reclaiming Puerto Rico’s Food Paradise 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z She’s addressing a middle class in which she herself grew up, invoking a depth of human potential that used to be widespread. Sherry Turkle’s ‘Reclaiming Conversation’ 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Warren will write about her childhood and early professional life, but the book will mostly be a "rousing call" for the middle class. Publisher: Sen. Warren book coming out in 2014 2013-05-22T21:02:12Z First, Friedman wants to explain why the world is the way it is — why so many things seem to be spinning out of control, especially for the Minnesota white middle class he grew up in. The Message of Thomas Friedman’s New Book: It’s Going to Be O.K. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The real job creators are the vast middle class, whose spending drives the economy and creates jobs. America’s vanishing middle class 2012-08-31T19:34:00Z The Russian delicacy of salt-cured sturgeon eggs became a fad for Europe’s new middle class — and that took a heavy toll on American sturgeon. Sturgeon are making a comeback in America’s waterways 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z That's also the default setting of his lyrics: if you hadn't known he was a master of portraying the British middle classes as Pooterish fumblers, you did after two hours and 20 songs. The Divine Comedy ? review 2011-07-27T17:48:00Z As only members of the middle classes were allowed to travel through Europe without a passport, he was often stopped by the local police. Le Premier Fugueur by Johan Furaker - review 2011-03-29T12:59:01Z Great characters, intelligent stories, from an industry so often and undeservedly derided then by the middle class press. Dredd writer mourns Dandy demise 2012-08-17T11:02:36Z He is, in short, an observational comedian, now the most conventional type of all, but in his field – the middle classes – he's the best. Comedy gold – Michael McIntyre's Live and Laughing 2013-07-23T09:28:55Z “I would like to see shows that cater to not only the rich and middle class.” Essence Fest 2012: Is Reality TV Still Not Diverse Enough? 2012-07-08T15:59:07Z It's not just families that are putting themselves in debt to pay for housing and education costs — an essential expense for middle classes hoping to secure entry to a desirable university for their children. "Squid Game": The real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Well, a lot of your book is about the survival of the middle class in the digital age, the importance of a broad middle class as we move forward. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z Many by Indians, at least in English, are either earnest, grimly written depictions of inequality and dearth or light-hearted romps through the social mores of the middle class. The Story of My Assassins by Tarun J Tejpal – review 2012-11-23T11:00:01Z During this period, America's middle classes generally embraced all things Victorian, from architecture to moral reform societies. The Christmas tree is a tradition older than Christmas 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Mitchell, who is 25 and rangy, grew up in Marietta, a largely white, conservative, middle class suburb of Atlanta. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z It marks him out as a “Yahoo among the Houyhnhnms — too old, dirty and wasteful to pass, even in this bad light, as a member of Seattle’s uniquely refined middle class.” Books of The Times: ?Driving Home,? by Jonathan Raban - Review 2011-09-15T21:30:23Z “We can no longer talk about the solid middle class.” Will a Pandemic Shatter the Perception of American Exceptionalism? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Being middle class or wealthy and paying lots of taxes should not disqualify people from a fair share of public investment. Mayor de Blasio’s Plan for Parks Needs to Grow 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z It's a low-key, middle-brow start for the middle classes – a gentle stroll with Britain's adopted national treasure. The digested Hay festival 2010-05-31T13:15:00Z By making the Jeffers household struggling but middle class, “Black or White” avoids addressing the extremes of poverty that are a root cause of crime and drug addiction. ‘Black or White’ Stars Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Many have just arrived in the middle class, some are barely hanging on, some may lose their grip – but by any reasonable measurement, most appear here to stay. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z "The British middle class is obsessed by what they call bad language," he told reporters. Ken Loach bemoans censors' cuts 2012-05-22T15:42:09Z “Telling the poor and the middle classes apart might be an esoteric riddle,” he thinks, “but it was the wealthy who were really easy to spot: they ate cakes imported from the lowlands.” Books of The Times: ‘Quesadillas,’ by Juan Pablo Villalobos 2014-02-27T22:39:35Z I think that since April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King was assassinated, the black middle class has doubled, the black upper middle class has quadrupled. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z “What you see in the concentration of yoga, meditation, and working out is classic tropes and habits of the urban upper middle class.” In the Kale Smoothie Era of Democratic politics, 2020 candidates race to embody self-care 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The new piece’s emphasis on half-baked dreams and dead-end jobs comments, if amorphously, on our economically thwarted middle class. Review: A Talent for Talentlessness in ‘Stairway to Stardom’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Springsteen writes that the "article shows that the cuts are eating away at the lower edges of the middle class, not just those already classified as in poverty." NJ paper gets letter to the editor from The Boss 2011-03-31T12:44:17Z I grew up in a fairly broke household but my family is now solidly middle class. My career as an international blood smuggler 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Growing numbers of visitors from abroad, along with well-heeled Russian tourists — their wallets fat with petrodollars — and members of the increasingly mobile Russian middle class head here for summer vacations. White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011-06-03T19:03:09Z According to this criteria, “Serial” wasn’t diverse despite being a story about the murder of Hae-Min Lee by Adnan Sayed, the son of Muslim immigrants, because its interpretive lens was both middle class and White. The next “Serial” could be way less white: A new wave of multicultural podcasts amplifies a tide of break-out voices 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Houellebecq’s writing proves again to be timely and even prescient, capturing the roiling unrest among much of France’s middle class. 13 Books to Watch For in November 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Consider the fact that all these men just so happen to be white and middle class. Men behaving badly: how the white middle-class everyman became 2017's antihero 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Also being tapped are middle class patients from countries with poor health systems. Malaysia tries to parlay appeal to Muslim visitors into medical tourism push 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Back then, as now, what constituted authentic blackness was determined by the plight of the majority, which meant the poorest . . . being of the black middle class could make you defensive. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z As I learned more about Lieberman, I saw much of myself in him, a bookish and idealistic middle class Jewish kid from the northeast. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Effie said she still believed her family, whom she described as middle class and educated but traditional, had seen cutting as a religious obligation. Number of FGM victims found to be 70 million higher than thought 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z By the mid-1910s even the middle classes considered “dating” a legitimate way to woo. Love’s labour 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Our middle classes may be "decent", as Browne claimed, but our millionaires are mean: if charitable giving in Britain were compulsory, it would on these figures be a flat tax. Bleeding art: where have all the British philanthropists gone? 2013-07-16T15:47:26Z Mozart’s body was buried, without marking, in a common grave, according to the typical practice of the day for the Viennese middle class, ensuring that no remains that are indisputedly his are available for testing. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z And it will also require huge sacrifices from the middle class. Is Rick Santorum a Conservative Health-Care Champion? 2012-01-06T20:14:53Z She quotes the political scientist Ashley Jardina, who found that most white nationalists “own houses, have average incomes similar to most whites in the United States, are employed and identify as middle class.” ‘Sisters in Hate’ Offers a Window Into Women in the White Nationalist Movement 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Satyarthi's organisation has lobbied for more protection to be provided to rural children and women who are trafficked to cities to work as domestic workers in middle class homes. 'I can't explain the joy each time I've freed a child': Nobel winner 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The moon looms over several middle class homes, a couple of front porches, a single street lamp. Roll Red Roll: behind the chilling documentary on high school rape 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Beatty grew up middle class, with a public defender mother and a father who worked in IT for a bank. What happened to Todd: retracing my brother's steps to understand addiction 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The myths and lies that middle class and other privileged white folks tell themselves about America and reality are very evocative of the movie “Forrest Gump.” Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z “Instead, it is a dark, startlingly bloody journey into the bitter, empty, broken heart of the American middle class, a blend of farce and satire built on a foundation of social despair.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘Amazing Grace’ and ‘The House’ 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z She disregards the spiraling downward of the working class and the middle class, although she may pay some lip service in that direction. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z In a Pew survey released last month less than half of all respondents described themselves as “middle class,” slightly less than four years ago. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z Justine and Reney, angels flying too close to the ground, dismiss the clean, managerial men who might give them access to the middle class. Cherokee Women Aim for a Better Life in ‘Crooked Hallelujah’ 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z “It resolves a tension where being perceived as too middle class was seen as acting white or ‘sidity’, and often associated with being light-skinned. Bad and boujee: the lifestyle that took over TV 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Which it almost certainly will do anyway, because with growing demand from the emerging middle classes in Asia, global meat prices will rise. Jay Rayner: thou shalt eat veg! 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z “Even for somebody who is straight and white and female and middle class and all of these things that should make my life easier.” A new wave of comedians is exploring the anxieties of our Instagram age 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Yes, Ephron’s world is indeed a narrowly middle class and privileged one. I've never seen … Sleepless in Seattle 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z As a kid, the young Huxtables were among the few children on television with faces that looked like mine living well-adjusted upper middle class existences that resembled my own. Ask an Ethicist: Can I Still Watch The Cosby Show? 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z It was a shock to the middle class community of Eagle Rock. Who Would Firebomb a Homeless Encampment? 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z As my partner, who is Chicano, said: White people's idea of poverty is basically being middle class. Don't just laugh at "Hillbilly Elegy" — its damaging myths still need to be countered 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z It's contributing to the growth of inequality, harming countless children, and weakening, perhaps fatally, our formerly strong middle class. Motherlode Blog: Does Championing Marriage Exclude Single Parents? 2013-01-29T23:41:21Z Attendance may be stagnating in some parts of the world, but a growing middle class with disposable incomes to match is making the Asia-Pacific region a prime target for investors and theme park owners. 2010-02-11T21:00:00Z In mid-18th-century England, a new and growing middle class had money to spend on their children, and Newbery gave them something to spend it on. Who was John Newbery, the namesake of the children’s book award? 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z That is an anxiety that might hit home especially hard in America, where individualism is more deeply rooted and where the fall from the middle class is less cushioned by social benefits and workplace protections. The Dardennes Explore Their Theme in ‘Two Days, One Night’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z America’s vanishing middle class Topics: , RobertReich.org, The middle class, , This originally appeared on Robert Reich's blog. America’s vanishing middle class 2012-08-31T19:34:00Z As Esquire magazine discovered a little too late, nobody wants to hear about “what it’s like to grow up white, middle class, and male” in today’s America – especially not during Black History Month. Why the privileged white male is bombing at the Box Office 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z I don't particularly define myself as middle class, It just doesn't work like that. Melvyn Bragg: 'I'm a class mongrel' ? interview 2012-02-12T00:06:06Z Grigsby was born in Reading, and described his Berkshire family as "lower middle class". Michael Grigsby obituary 2013-03-21T18:30:54Z Ms. Warren has since emerged as a very popular figure in the Democratic Party and a fierce advocate for the middle class. Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z The bungalow block was twentieth-century Chicago’s quintessential landscape of middle-class solidity and working-class confidence in upward mobility, but today it’s harder to enter or stay in the middle class. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal School in 1881 and created a cultural oasis for a deeply intellectual, African American middle class. Lionel Richie can’t slow down, and we’re all the richer for it 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z “She was a realist from the get-go. And children’s books flourish when there is a growing middle class, and England at that time was the epicenter for the Industrial Revolution.” She’s More Than the Creator of Peter Rabbit 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z "The crises it explores are those of middle class privilege -- issues of pride and status and the struggle first to regain one's standing, and then to persevere through hard work and ingenuity," Haynes said. Winslet takes on Joan Crawford in new "Mildred Pierce" 2011-03-24T14:02:36Z By the standards of today, when income inequality has widened exponentially and the middle class is shrinking, statistics that infuriated Vidal sound like the answer to a socialist’s prayer. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z I was odd, because I was the child of people who worked in the theatre, so I was culturally middle class. Alistair Beaton and Anthony Neilson: double trouble 2010-07-27T20:31:00Z But I don't think that the size of the black middle class and the black upper class is going to go up. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The show was packed with visitors who avoided catching your eye and occasionally made the kind of gentle throat-clearing noise signaling public awkwardness among the polite British middle classes. X-rated Japanese erotica sets throats clearing at UK shows 2013-10-21T14:55:13Z And by the way, what is middle class? Sarah Jessica Parker on 'Divorce' and 'Sex and the City' 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z But what was striking this time is how many of the East End kids rose from working to middle class — a defining experience for the boomer generation, in England as well as here. Our Generation: ’56 Up’ Shows Generation’s Commitment to Family 2013-01-07T18:02:59Z The family worked its way back to middle class prosperity, allowing Garcia to study acting at Florida University, then leave for Hollywood, where he waited tables for seven years before establishing himself as a name. Andy Garcia: the outsider 2010-07-19T06:59:00Z This, clearly, isn’t the kind of logic that has much use for steady, incremental growth, to say nothing of a flourishing middle class. ‘The Power Law’ Is a Funder-Friendly Look at the World of Venture Capital 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z It wasn't just that the relentless departure of capital, of its intelligentsia and middle class, had left it hollowed from inside; it was also the way local politics had territorialised it. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z Tom and Eve are pious and more conventionally middle class but also develop clashing agendas. Review: ‘American Crime,’ a Series Where Justice Is Far From Black or White 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The USPS, with 630,000 employees, has long been a gateway to the middle class, allowing workers with a high school education to purchase homes and envision retirement. Trump, beware: Americans have a deep, enduring love for the Postal Service 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Social aspiration provokes conflicting emotions in the middle classes, and is at the heart of so many of our societal schisms. My wealthy daughter-in-law always treats us very rudely 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z “His single-payer healthcare proposal would cost so much it would require raising taxes on the middle class.” Robert Reich: The Bernie skeptics are wrong — here are 6 reasons why 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z As Wilkerson notes, these black men and women and children are also full-fledged members of the middle class, though often forgotten and invisible in today’s political discourse about the middle class. Letters to the Editor 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Thick metal bars blocked the light coming in from the lush garden behind the house in the upper middle class area, and the shower, often cold, sometimes didn’t come on at all. Jacqueline Woodson on Africa, America and Slavery’s Fierce Undertow 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The parents, who seem to be striving members of China’s new middle class, weep openly at their failure to control their sons. ‘Web Junkie’ Examines Internet Addiction in China 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z “When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you’ve got to be working or you won’t be able to pay the bills,” she said. Anna Kendrick on ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ and Not Trying Too Hard 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Lansing, a middle class, small town of 30,000, is located 25 miles south of Chicago – not exactly fertile ground for slave plantations in the nineteenth century. My hometown Confederate war 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z But then it became more than just a big fat “Oh, phew!” regarding having a president who won’t actively try to sabotage our reproductive rights or marriage equality or the middle class. Let the post-Sandy election gloating continue! 2012-11-09T20:35:00Z This time, however, that would be the British middle class. Posh pushovers: why do films squeeze out the middle classes? 2011-02-25T15:22:36Z He notes a fast-growing middle class starting to catch up with the affluent part of the population and a customer who “spends a lot.” IHT Luxury Conference: Brazil and the Fashionable Life 2011-11-09T12:11:45Z Nidal Hasan, who grew up middle class in Virginia, enlisted in the Army and became, in Mr. Bergen’s words, “the deadliest lone wolf of all,” killing 13 people at Fort Hood. Review: Peter Bergen’s ‘United States of Jihad’ Surveys Homegrown Terrorism 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Amid the underlying cultural anxiety of the 1950s was an ebullient sense of hope espoused in a growing middle class, and nowhere was this better captured than in the picture magazine Look. A New Book Showcases Nostalgic Photography From the 1950s 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Last week's news included the titbit that a DVD of King Lear has become a surprise hit at Poundland, the new destination shop for recession-hit middle classes. Harry Potter and the Deadly Dullards 2011-07-23T23:06:50Z “You can’t talk about educational inequities or the shrinking middle class without talking about how much it costs to live near good schools and high-paying jobs,” he writes. Where America’s Fight for Housing Is an All-Out War 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z They all grew up middle class and come from a generation generally at home in its multiple identities. Buraka Som Sistema Reveals Lisbon’s Musical Melting Pot 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z More specifically, it speaks to the deepening household debt crisis affecting the lower and middle classes. "Squid Game": The real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Postwar, Iraq entered a long, grueling period of international sanctions that beggared its once robust middle class. Mourning Iraq’s Destruction, a Native Son Creates 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Ibsen’s domestic dramas anatomized the manifold hypocrisies of the rising middle class. Let the power of 'Hamilton' speak louder than a Twitter feud 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z This is driven by a natural evolution based on a younger demographic, as the Asian markets continue to move more people into the middle class. The AFM gets down to business – and not a leopard-print bikini in sight 2012-11-13T18:12:39Z “By schooling readers in the performance of the new leisure—what to see, what to wear, what to do,” Harrington-Lueker suggests, summer novels “played a significant role in shaping that middle class identity.” The Invention of the “Beach Read” 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z “This middle class is the real driving force behind these uprisings, particularly in Egypt and Tunisia and this augurs well for a quick return to economic stability and even accelerated development.” Special Report: Fashion: Luxury and Unrest 2011-02-25T19:01:18Z The men resemble people whom Perry met in his peregrinations around the middle classes. Hogarth revisited: Grayson Perry uses tapestries to tackle taste and class 2012-06-05T23:01:03Z Reading David's letter, I do wonder if the reason for this is because these were mainly working-class people, whereas the Nazis' core support base were the lower middle class and the middle-class professions. Letters: Alone under a dictatorship 2011-01-15T00:06:19Z Sure, the mothers and fathers of the upper middle classes will be able to pay for their sons and daughters to go to drama school, or subsidise their internships. Arts funding cuts will bring down the curtain on our theatre's golden age 2010-07-28T12:31:00Z “You have a primary partner, and they’re the important one… ” He rolled his eyes, and I told him he was being too middle class about it. 'What were her knickers like?': the truth about trying an open relationship 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z She analyzed the impact of a wide range of patriarchal institutions — publishing, military, politics — on middle class women’s lives without trying to up-end any of those institutions. Thinking beyond Betty Friedan 2013-02-22T15:49:00Z “The Jazz Age” also looks at developments in manufacturing, when major department stores were studying contemporary trends in European furniture and creating mass-market versions for the rising American middle classes. A Jazz Age Exhibition With a Syncopated Sweep 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z If Bosch is right, and the zombie craze is about middle class anxiety, then the slime-green guns really are just a marketing joke, albeit in a cynical industry. Gun owners are obsessed with zombies 2013-02-21T17:28:00Z If unions continue to decline, can these groups ever hope to accomplish what old labor once did—substantially improving working conditions on a mass scale and helping to build a new middle class? Will “alt-labor” replace unions? 2013-01-29T20:45:00Z India's booming economy translated into a burgeoning middle class in smaller towns and cities, a fact filmmakers could hardly ignore. Bollywood gets real 2012-09-13T15:12:26Z She said she grew up in Connecticut in a middle class family, the daughter of a baker. Donald Trump’s exclusive golf resort neighbors county jail 2013-04-08T16:13:00Z “I said I grew up poor once and now my parents are upset with me. So I grew up middle class,” she said. Elizabeth Banks Was a Frustrated Actress. Now She’s a Determined Mogul. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z On the whole, it has been a feature that liberalism was more to be found at the upper end of the aristocracy, socially, than it was in the middle classes. ArtsBeat: Julian Fellowes on Viewer Criticism and ‘Downton Abbey’s’ Future 2014-02-24T03:30:09Z “We went from middle class to abject poverty overnight,” he recalled in a telephone interview. As Tensions Rise With Iran, So Does Interest in Art It Inspired 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z But while both writers charted the lives of the mid-20th-century US middle class, Cheever chronicled those in the upper realms while Yates focused on sad strivers who evolved into losers. Richard Yates and Easter's rising despair 2010-04-01T13:00:00Z These were primarily working dogs, but as America built its middle class, pet ownership quickly became a status symbol. The changing face of “America’s dog” — and what it says about us 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Grove is trepidatious when it comes to the club, wary, I suppose, of failing to consider it sufficiently elitist and middle class. So Much to Tell by Valerie Grove 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z And in watching “The Politician,” you get the sense that “middle class” encapsulates an income bracket Dusty has spent much of her life striving to reach. “The Politician”: From Olive Garden to green juice, food reveals the show’s true politics 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z “My view is that mental health discussions have been monopolised by the middle classes,” says the campaigner Natasha Devon, who has toured schools and universities for the past decade. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z If you’re middle class, like I am, don’t you somehow resent that your entire personal hard earned tax dollars paid to the government was spent on teaching the letter ‘G’ on Sesame Street? Comments of the Week: Oct. 6 – 12 2012-10-11T18:00:44Z After initially growing up on a middle class street in North Shields, things became difficult, Fender said, after his parents divorced when he was 8. Sam Fender, a Songwriter Caught Between Stardom and His Hometown 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z What is the real disaster, the friendly toot asks, and is limited and sporadic aid enough to resolve a “battered community” filled with “ghosts of a long-dead middle class haunting every byway”? Review | In ‘Standpipe,’ David Hardin offers poignant, fleeting reflections on the Flint water crisis 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z I feel like there is no “me” outside of my white/upper middle class/cisgender identity. How Can I Cure My White Guilt? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z It still seems likely that the lifting of travel restrictions will lead to an explosion of vacation bookings, as a giant, furloughed middle class, mad with cabin fever, celebrates its emancipation by booking a vacation. A travel writer contemplates a less mobile future 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The piece is presumably intended as a satire on the trendy metropolitan middle classes. The Victorian in the Wall – review 2013-05-17T17:25:57Z There is no middle class, there are no safe jobs, and when it’s cold outside, people start to develop skills. David Simon, J. Cole, Patricia Lockwood and Others on Social Issues as Manifested in Art 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z In China, Western performance culture fits a middle class that wears Prada and reads Vogue. China's First Lady of Opera 2010-03-04T16:16:00Z “It kind of represents domesticity and a certain middle class effort at beautification, but it’s also kind of tacky at the same time,” Ms. Archer said. Fake Food Is Trendy Again 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z Amina belonged to a middle class, well-educated family, but they threw her out when she got pregnant. In "Lingui," a teenager is forced to seek an abortion in Chad: "Injustice is against women, always" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Whitney, a 25 year-old recovering heroin addict from a middle class family in the small town of Cody, Wyoming, can attest to that. Teen heroin use on the rise 2012-08-31T15:24:00Z And the difference between that discourse and the kinds of discourse I would see applied to white authors, or white middle class authors. Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z And this parade of African experience is being staged for Broadway audiences who are still largely white, middle aged and middle class. 2010-01-29T03:33:00Z If you’re middle class, you hire someone to arrive every day, ready to take care of your young children. Women’s rights is the longest revolution 2013-02-21T17:14:00Z The people are richer, even the upper middle class is gone. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z But make no mistake: the American middle class is shrinking. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z But Smarsh’s story demonstrates an urgent truth of today’s unforgiving economy, that a college degree no longer unlocks the gates to the dignities of the middle class as it once did. A tale of two literary Americas: What a book on inequality accidentally reveals about inequality 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Ghosh, who directed about 20 feature films in the Bengali language, mostly dealing with the dilemmas of India's urban middle class. Rituparno Ghosh: Indian film director dies age 49 2013-05-30T10:00:06Z At the very least, Schilling’s Piper re-enters her comfortable middle class existence, but that will probably include some measure of success and fame. “Orange Is the New Black” and the chilling truths of deportation and incarceration 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z One point is that if things are this difficult for middle class me, they are 10 times worse for low-income people. America’s credit system is broken 2013-01-03T17:17:00Z She represents, I suppose, something close to the middle class. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z It’s not a debate about marginal tax rates or the unregulated free market: It’s a gut feeling that the game is rigged, and the middle class and the poor are losing. Why does everybody suddenly hate billionaires? Because they’ve made it easy. 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z “The old black middle class knew more than it wanted to about the front line,” he writes. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z A few years ago, as far as anyone could tell from the mainstream media, we lived in a country populated by a vast, undifferentiated “middle class,” and a few wealthy or impoverished outliers. No victory left behind: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton changed how people talk about sex, race and class 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found voters overwhelmingly prefer the president when asked which of the two candidates is likable, cares about average people, or is looking out for the middle class. 5 things the early polls tell us about the Obama-Romney matchup 2012-04-20T10:15:00Z Buoyed by a booming middle class, China last year was the world’s third-largest market for art, according to the annual Art Basel and UBS art market report. ‘Museum Diplomacy’ as New Pompidou Center Opens in Shanghai 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Waves is unusual in its depiction of black lives, rejecting the typical urban-and-struggling narrative and focusing instead on the middle classes, with many of the tropes of a white American psychodrama. How Waves unpicks the pressures of ‘black excellence’ 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Supporters credit them with the 40-hour work week, the weekend, fair wages, safe working conditions, overtime pay – much of the edifice that build the American middle class in the mid-20th-century. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z The middle class remains both unknown to itself and fearful that what is valuable may disappear. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z While I readily accept that the moral dilemmas of the middle classes are always a fit subject for drama, I feel our supposedly inclusive theatre is currently excluding a large section of society. Michael Billington on working-class theatre 2013-01-25T21:00:03Z Mel's conspiracy theories about the destruction of the middle class don't sound so paranoid, it's clear Simon's rapid-fire dialogue is hitting a live, throbbing, national nerve. Review: 'Prisoner's' downsized predicament seems all too familiar 2011-05-07T03:30:06Z Of the central character, an entitled young Englishwoman named Naomi, her father observes: “She wanted to be a Samaritan: the easiest job in the world, and perfect for the useless European middle classes.” Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z And as part of a slow but steady rise in aesthetic standards, it at least feeds the fantasy that someday high-quality architecture will trickle down to the city’s shrinking middle classes. Architecture Review: One Madison Park Hints at a Better Design Future 2010-06-28T22:33:00Z I had the courage to write a novel that exposed my lower middle class roots. Shame by a thousand looks: The microaggressions of poverty 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z There’s this strange idea – I talk about this particularly in the 1960s and early 70s – suddenly the middle class has become boring. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Mere minutes into conversation and she’s talking politics, specifically as they pertain to “Money Monster,” a timely thriller she’s directed that takes place within the vortex of economic insecurity now decimating the middle class. How Jodie Foster stays one of the most ‘real’ stars in Hollywood 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z You've taken all the edge out of the song, all of the playfulness and made it sound safe, white and middle class. American Idol, Miley Cyrus Week: Our Eggheads Debate 2010-03-24T13:12:00Z "The street names were changed to Malaysian ones, but the middle classes were still speaking to each other in English." Tash Aw: a life in writing 2013-03-15T08:00:27Z Given the many voters in the election who felt “forgotten,” particularly in the middle class, reality TV producers discussed ways to reach out to viewers who are underrepresented, both on screen and behind the camera. Trump is our first reality TV president. So how could his victory change reality TV? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Taken together, they present a montage of life in a building that, when it was built in the mid-70s, attracted the city's affluent white middle classes. Tower blocks and tomes dominate the Rencontres d'Arles 2011-07-11T15:26:24Z Why are so many new black plays about the urban working-classes, so few about the black middle class? Black British theatre: who says I can't do Chekhov? 2013-07-17T17:25:03Z A generation ago, a top Bordeaux or Burgundy was an affordable luxury, available to the middle class. Finding inspiration in wine that’s merely ‘interesting’ 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Later an avowedly respectable Victorian middle class started to see violence as something done by other people; the violent were a lower class, they thought, operating in a separate moral universe. Killing fields 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Perry allowed special interests to write their own rules, hired corporate lobbyists to oversee corporations, and cut funding for programs that would create opportunity for middle class families,” LaBolt said in a statement. Texas Gov. Rick Perry joins 2012 GOP race 2011-08-13T17:52:00Z The distribution of the losses tells us that the middle class took the brunt of the damage, in terms of both net worth and income. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z With her debut, Unrelated, Hogg proved herself to be just about the only film-maker out there seeking to depict Britain's middle classes in a way they wouldn't necessarily enjoy. This week's new films 2011-03-05T00:07:29Z “Since our main target audience is the middle class, we try to price a bulk of our tickets to be competitive with the cost of a movie ticket,” Mr. Lin said. China’s Smaller Cities Struggle to Cultivate an Interest in Classical Music 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Spa treatments and products, alternative and complementary treatments and weight-loss programs once considered beyond the means of many people, she added, are becoming more mainstream with a growing middle class. Global spa, wellness industry estimated at $3.4 trillion: report 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Did you grow up poor, working class, middle class or wealthy? Middle class. 30 Under 30: Eight Questions With Meghan Trainor 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z “As in real life the middle class is being squeezed,” he said. Film: It?s the Relationships, Stupid 2010-11-20T19:13:00Z Creflo Dollar’s church attracts some forty thousand members, most of them poor and working-class blacks trying to pull themselves out of poverty and into the middle class. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z For one thing, they helped him make the transition from a fairly deprived working-class life to the artistically inclined middle class. Tom Wilkinson: down with the big boys 2011-04-05T20:30:00Z The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. What I see in the mirror: Gary Kemp 2012-06-15T21:59:17Z I think it would be expanding our middle class. Meet Muriel Bowser 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z She was a teenager and we had become members of the middle class. We’ve been children together, my daughter and me 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z They're not viewing criminals from a detached middle class intellectual perspective, as "The Sopranos" and so many other great cable series did. "Sons of Anarchy" comes roaring back to TV 2011-09-06T23:07:00Z Our two daughters are solidly middle class, as are we. Perspective | Ask Amy: Attack victim wants to warn others 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z We were talking about like who are the working women that we knew that were trying to get a foothold in the middle class. What would Kim Wexler wear? Rhea Seehorn on her iconic ponytail, Marshall’s separates and class 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z The diminishment of the middle class is the great subject of this oddball series, a melancholy hour-long comedy that tries to be philosophical about feeling gloomy. “Lodge 49,” Reviewed: Channelling Pynchon to Capture California’s High Hopes and Deep Loss 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z As she mounts a campaign built on lifting the middle class and alleviating the growing gap between rich and poor, Mrs. Clinton has come under criticism for her family’s wealth. Hillary Clinton’s Hamptons Quandary 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z That image now is very similar to what they were shouting from the rooftops in late 18th-century France, the idea that there was no middle class. “Marie Antoinette” at Woolly: Losing her head again It's because the kind of women being called out for being "too picky" — middle class, self-sufficient, young, educated — are the same women lining up to buy her records or selling out her concerts. GOP dudes are big mad at Taylor Swift for reminding them that the ladies don't like them 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z When the rich and the middle classes give to schools, they give more to those attended by their own children than to those of the poor. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The re-creation also captures a crucial moment in the birth of modern museum culture, with its democratic appeals to the culture-hungry middle class. For a Shakespeare Anniversary, an Online Re-Creation of a 1796 Show 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z A self-sustaining middle class frees up local support mechanisms for people who would struggle anywhere they lived. Welcome to the Future: Middle-Class Housing Projects 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The wealthy and middle class now dominate Britain’s creative industries. Tim Roth: ‘If you neglect the working class for so long they will rebel against you’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s really about the destruction of the middle class over these last 30 years or however long, and, as Robert Reich has said, if you destroy the middle class you destroy the democracy. 'Laughter is the great unifier' – behind the incredible life of Molly Ivins 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z His family was middle class, and he later remarked that he had been conscious of being “a member of the minority in the class war.” John Arden, British Playwright, Dies at 81 2012-04-03T18:15:07Z "We're from the urban middle class, and it was that reality around us that we were interested in portraying when we set about writing the script," said Rojas. 'Hard Labor' serves up Brazil sans bikinis 2011-05-13T17:36:12Z The potential growth of a middle class, in countries where the rich are a tiny minority, could be positive for consumerism. Special Report: Fashion: Luxury and Unrest 2011-02-25T19:01:18Z What is really horrible about this coalition is the unhealthy blend of hardcore Tory instincts to cut and slash with the woolly Liberal heritage of middle class do-gooders. The arts will survive cuts. Some people will struggle to 2010-10-20T11:35:00Z Sixty years from now, the commercial space industry has made visits to the moon financially possible for the upper and middle class. Andy Weir's 'The Martian' was a huge hit. And now he's hoping he's not a one-hit wonder. 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The data are clear: The rich are getting richer and the middle class is falling behind, and a good argument can be made that Silicon Valley is exacerbating this unwelcome trend. Andrew Keen rages against the machine in 'The Internet Is Not the Answer' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z “The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world,” he said. Today, We March 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville is proved right once again: it’s politically easier to reduce subsidies for the poor than for the middle class. Mitt Romney's Vaguely Promising Plan for Entitlement Reform 2011-11-05T19:41:51Z Not shying away from more hard-hitting fare, Clinton caught the last matinee of “The Humans,” Stephen Karam’s Tony-winning drama about a white an Irish American Catholic family losing its grip on the middle class. Why Hillary Clinton's next big stage should be at the Tony Awards 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the dwindling remnant of the middle class is either glued to "FoxLiberty" news or shopping incessantly on handheld "äppäräti." 'Super Sad True Love Story': Gary Shteyngart's dystopian novel is super, sad and true 2010-07-30T23:27:00Z Occupying a single floor of a non-descript building owned by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Tel al-Hawa, a middle class neighborhood of Gaza city, the conservatory would barely pass notice from the outside. Gaza music school shines in 'Arabs Got Talent' spotlight 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The middle class is the closest thing to a perfect balance — the financial comfort to aspire to minimum of a comfortable life and not have pressure of upper class. "Mothering Sunday" director on challenging politics through intimacy: "Nudity levels out classes" 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z They belong to a cosmopolitan, urban upper middle class that flourishes in the cities of the developed world. | 'Carnage': Roman Polanski?s ?Carnage,? With Jodie Foster - Review 2011-12-15T15:59:53Z Donnelly asks what we know about the schools that are becoming reality, people power, and why British middle classes are obsessed with education. This week's new theatre 2011-01-08T00:06:25Z They replaced the play's love-triangle plot and back-from-the-dead ending with a less conventional structure, meant to illuminate the changing character of the English middle class over the course of the second world war. Anthony Asquith emerges from Hitchcock's shadow 2011-04-06T15:13:47Z Gibbons was adamant that it is not only the middle classes who are library users. Libraries cater for the middle classes, not the deprived, says John Redwood 2011-04-11T11:40:56Z The wealthy grow wealthier, the middle class shrinks and the number of poor people swells. Sorry to Bother You: is this the most shocking anti-capitalist film ever? 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Actually dig into the fact that the GI Bill was used to build up an entire middle class despite the fact that it excluded Black people. "It's not a enough to indict individuals; we have to indict systems": Author Wes Moore on racism 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z I’m someone who grew up in the Bronx in a middle class family. Why Barbara Kavovit, Entrepreneur and Occasional ‘Housewives’ Friend, Is Running for Mayor 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z In order to experience the personal stories that come from within these emerging, modern middle classes, what we need are not huge state museums, but small and innovative museums focusing on individuals. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z It was perceived as a knighted, gold medal-wearing architect joining forces with a museum of middle class taste to bulldoze a bastion of working class culture. David Chipperfield's heritage pub brawl ends in a victory for no one 2013-05-03T16:27:00Z Of course, the traditional Australian middle class likes to rails against this perceived vulgarity. Who will win my bogan vote? 2013-05-27T01:30:00Z In 2012, Arnold and a team of sociologists and anthropologists published a book, Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century, based on a four-year study of 32 middle class, dual-income families in Los Angeles. Is it normal to hoard? 2014-03-16T00:00:00Z The essential message: Inside Time’s pages, pretend the black middle class is doing just fine. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z If there's a strong horror-movie undertow right under the surface of "Take Shelter," its main text is a recession-era marriage drama about a family struggling to cling to the lower edge of the middle class. Pick of the week: "Take Shelter," a potent fable of marriage and madness 2011-09-30T00:01:00Z Vadala, being released from jail, and Goldin, sitting in Trump’s private club, both hailed form the middle class and both said they were shocked at where America finds itself these days. Donald Trump’s exclusive golf resort neighbors county jail 2013-04-08T16:13:00Z The incident left him shaken and reminded him of his middle class privilege. Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z “And through all her hard work, Latinos made it to the upper middle class.” Holiday rom-com ‘With Love’ follows Latino family for a year 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z He described the confluence of events — largely of his own making — that acted as a current tugging him away from the middle class and beaching him on “Grub Street.” William McPherson, Pulitzer-winning book critic who chronicled his decline into poverty, dies at 84 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Ford grew up middle class in middle America, first in Texas, then New Mexico from the age of 11; his parents were real-estate agents. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z All he had were enemies: the reactionaries, the middle classes, the fascists, the Stalinists, and, above all, the rancid old critics who never forgave him!’ Who killed Roland Barthes? Maybe Umberto Eco has a clue. 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z He always has some sensible points to make: the middle classes do over-protect their children. Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: the Jimmy Savile Scandal by Frank Furedi – review 2013-03-13T12:00:02Z Not only did they build the U.A.W., he added, “they basically created the middle class.” ‘Brothers on the Line,’ Sasha Reuther’s Film on the U.A.W. 2012-10-09T22:34:03Z "Mary's like that great middle class of actors who work pretty consistently but don't have that particular cushion." Hollywood's fickle; family ties endure 2011-03-16T21:28:00Z One-third of the white population were middle class, landed Yeoman, our merchants, people with economic ties to slavery. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The mass middle class is disappearing fast and the old corporate model has been dead for decades. Hipsters, they’re just like us! “Normcore,” Sarah Palin, and the GOP’s big red state lie 2014-04-27T11:00:00Z Her upbringing was Roman Catholic, suburban and comfortably middle class. She Reported From the World’s Combat Zones, at the Cost of Her Life 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “It is a privilege reserved exclusively for the White, middle class — because of the same class bias and racism that pervades every other aspect of our society.” Marijuana’s last taboo: Parents who get stoned 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Devi had cast off the trappings of the middle class she was born into and chose to live simply as a writer, often roaming the country with her subjects as she did research. Mahasweta Devi, Bengali Writer and Activist Who Fought Injustice, Dies at 90 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The ballet audience in general is white middle class. Role model 2011-02-09T10:39:21Z A lot of my mom’s cousins, they tried to achieve the American dream and become middle class, but it didn’t happen. Why Star Montana wants you to really see Boyle Heights through her stark and stirring portraits 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Many of us middle class kids were pushing ourselves out to those margins in those days. Allman Brothers Band, at Beacon Theater, Plays Final Concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z I don’t presume to know the best policies to counter the economic trends that have been eviscerating the middle class, but history gives us some indication of how we got here. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The last time this was clearly seen by many Americans was during the Great Depression, when people well established in the middle class resorted to selling apples on the street. Letters to the Editor 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The Republicans decide to continue pushing it anyway, because, in the words of “Mojo” McConnell, it contains “important safety information that will benefit the middle class.” Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Russia Mania, covfefe and the Category 5 weirdness of 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The characters of "Somebody Somewhere," meanwhile, are treading water in the lower middle class. Echoes of that "Ted Lasso" Midwest niceness in "Somebody Somewhere" 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Ms. Dunham’s fictional cohort is more ordinary and middle class, but that generation’s sense of entitlement — and pass/fail work ethic — is still gently mocked. Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z So when he found himself being stalked down a dark street, having just been suspended for a crime that his middle class white peers laugh about, perhaps he improvised. Playing for Michelle Obama 2012-06-11T21:25:00Z Based on the 2015 young-adult novel by Julie Murphy that shares its title, the movie takes place in a generic fantasy of a small town where working-class life looks comfortably middle class. Review: ‘Dumplin’’ Shares an Ordinary Girl’s Truth 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z I acknowledge that substandard daycare situations abound, but to use this as a description of daycare in a book written by and for middle class U.S. women? Motherlode: Talking About Torn 2011-06-21T15:52:15Z In a middle class household and my dad worked for the New York telephone company. Lori Loughlin on “Full House” fandom, Hallmark mysteries and parenting in the age of Finstagram 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The women are white, American, the first two Midwestern, Catholic and middle class, while Sloane is a product of East Coast, upper-class, Protestant privilege. Review | Lisa Taddeo’s ‘Three Women’ examines the way men’s actions shape female desire 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Now, financially, we are what you might call N.Y.C. middle class. Motherlode Blog: How Much Would You Pay to Have a Baby? 2013-12-03T17:55:48Z He photographed vestiges of royalty and scores of the middle classes and the down-and-out amid urban and rural settings. Bruce Davidson's photos at Huntington show a Yankee's view of Britain 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z It is a group portrait of families clawing their way into the middle class, only to often slip back into poverty, drugs and alcohol. 'The Grim Sleeper' is the story of the South L.A. serial killer and the women who were his victims 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Since scratch cooking today is largely a hobby or a personal choice of the middle class, many of us wish we could spend more time in the kitchen. Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig? 2013-04-28T01:00:00Z "Leaving" also touches on other issues, including abusive relationships -- "domestic violence in middle class, 'nice' families is something I have always been horrified by." Kristin Scott Thomas carries sensuality into films 2010-10-01T17:43:00Z Middleton's parents were self-made millionaires, so "middle class" is perhaps an overstatement, but the implication that they were not "old money" held. A decade after William and Kate's royal wedding, the "anyone can be a princess" fantasy is shattered 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Corker, who grew up middle class, knew he wanted to go into construction before he graduated, and knew he would be rich before he turned 30. Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Trump. If he could only make it up. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Her view is that she has divided the urban middle class. India's bold, brilliant daughter 2011-01-29T00:06:38Z You have become – despite how many times my Facebook friends have suggested this makes you a person without feelings – a member of the conservative, educated middle class. Game over, conservative friend 2012-11-17T00:30:00Z Domestic tourism, bolstered by the growth of the middle class, is booming. Architects See Potential in China’s Countryside 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The new film shifts from the suburban anxieties of the white middle class to a group of Latino teenagers in an apartment complex. ‘Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones’ is a fun fright 2014-01-03T17:59:24Z I got the best of both: the opportunities that went with being middle class, and the world views that went with being working class. Lauren Laverne: My family values 2012-12-29T00:05:34Z More problematic, their moderately louche elegance often seems to befit a middle class with plenty of money to dispense on dressing, rather than the desperate lower orders. Theater Review: Atlantic Theater’s Decadent, Decorous ‘Threepenny Opera’ 2014-04-08T02:00:15Z The "gay" issue is funny, it's related to the middle class urban people's prejudice. "They play Santa Claus": Humanitarians tested by a stuck Land Rover in savage comedy "Intregalde" 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Still, I believed that touching all the stations of the cross — good schools, blue-chip firms, cultivating the right relationships, succeeding at high-profile assignments — would seal my place in the middle class. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z This is not a subtle message, and people—specifically the educated middle class—are receiving it loud and clear. Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig? 2013-04-28T01:00:00Z In 1991, Robert Hass spoke of the difficulties of writing good political poetry when poems are “a phenomenon of the urban middle class.” For June Jordan and Muriel Rukeyser, the Arc of Moral Verse Bent Toward Justice 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z But is it justifiable to protest against cuts that, some argue, largely affect the middle class, when so much else is at stake, from Sure Start centres to care for the elderly? Culture clash as threat of 100% cut in arts funding divides Newcastle 2013-01-29T20:02:40Z His latest work, Loveless, was made without state support, assembled with European cash to paint a black-as-pitch portrait of the Moscow middle class. Controversial Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev: 'Dissident? I'm more of a clown' 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z My parents were bohemian members of the new middle class, but the conductor was an upper-middle-class product of the public school system. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z If music classes were cut in public schools, this opportunity would be the sole preserve of the middle class. Behind the music: Why music education cuts could be a dumb move 2011-01-13T15:50:12Z People who can’t afford the investments that help keep marriages together split and sink from the middle class. America’s miserable economy may be ruining your love life 2014-02-16T01:00:00Z But China's economic boom was starting, creating a middle class with disposable income. Getty Institute helps save China's Mogao Grottoes from tourism's impact 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z There is probably a tendency to provide more elbow room for a rapidly growing intellectual middle class and educated sectors of the population, which, after all, will be measured in tens, possibly hundreds of millions. From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z The narrator is a Wyndham type – male, happily married, middle class, concerned and observant and thoroughly decent. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z Politicians chosen by the rich have passed legislation in state after state intended to bankrupt labor unions, the very organizations that were so crucial to creating the middle class in America. The college admissions scandal is just the tip of the inequality iceberg 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z “Don’t forget that the middle classes are far better behaved than the upper classes,” Mr. York said. Pippa Middleton Goes Out on Her Own. But She’s Not Alone. 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Not only has our country particularly since the World War II period, where you have the rise of suburbia and the middle class, reinforced racial segregation, we’ve also imposed class zoned neighborhoods. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z I think it's just because my parents were middle class. Kim Gordon's fresh start 2013-09-19T16:18:45Z “The cost of shedding middle management would prove high,” Mr. Saval writes, “for middle managers had been the basis of the American middle class itself.” Books of The Times: Nikil Saval’s ‘Cubed’ Tells the History of the Modern Workplace 2014-04-24T19:44:01Z The middle class will finally disappear, so we won’t have to worry anymore about what to do with them. Style Invitational: A RIP-roaring year — write an obit poem 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z “And the middle class is dwindling. And now we have extreme interactions.” She was a crack addict. He was a rising political star. Then their worlds collided 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z In those days, says Syms, the only people permitted to have marital problems were the middle classes. Sylvia Syms: 'I'd like a really evil part' 2012-07-19T19:00:04Z The middle class has ceased to exist as the "Debtor" class inherits their family members' debt, meaning it accumulates over time and generations. March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z The story promised to unpack “what it’s like to grow up white, middle class, and male in the era of social media, school shootings, toxic masculinity, #MeToo, and a divided country.” Perspective | How should we talk about white men today? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Another is Trier’s satirical eye for the foibles of the modern metropolitan middle class as it grapples with parenthood, fitness, etiquette and climate change. ‘The Worst Person in the World’ Review: Oslo, Her Way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The middle classes are covered by every sitcom alive. Are TV sitcoms too middle-class? 2011-01-30T00:04:16Z These Joneses are not simply American dreamers of the shrinking middle class; they are more like the Couches and other families in the top tiers of wealth. Affluenza: the history of the 'disease' that plagues the wealthy and privileged 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z One example: both hit the middle class hard, as well as the lower classes. Intiman Theatre dusts off Depression-era 'Paradise Lost' ? which speaks powerfully to us now 2010-03-17T23:20:00Z Will’s screens don’t seem to depict any human beings who aren’t at least in the vicinity of the middle class. ‘Nine Days’ Review: Belief in the Beforelife 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Not being "religious" became what "C of E" had been before – the default position and class marker of the middle classes. Evangelical sex activists are no better than religious moralists 2013-06-28T12:05:37Z It's been praised for speaking directly to the ambitions and anxieties of China's growing urban middle class. Lost in Thailand: did China's comedy hit get lost in translation? 2013-02-13T16:50:12Z In light of our politicians and corporations out-sourcing middle class jobs, he may be on to something. Art Smith, Chef to Stars, Turns to His Neglected Hometown 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z When I asked her whether possible Russian collusion mattered to her, she paused and then answered thoughtfully: “Yes, it’s important, but not as important as our economy and what’s happened to our middle class.” Perspective | Serious journalists should be proud of — not bullied over — their Russia reporting 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z It's going to be difficult to imagine our peers in the middle and upper middle classes within the black community not being there in the future, and their children not doing just as well. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z In suburban Connecticut, middle class women were required to stay at home and do nothing but cook and iron. Garlic with Everything 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Sitaraman argues that the Constitution is premised on the existence of a thriving middle class, and that the current explosion of inequality will destroy it. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z He was brought up middle class in Oldham, nice house near a park, church every Sunday, cousins and aunties in and out, 'lots of arguments and noise'. Nick Grimshaw: Meet BBC's It-boy 2012-07-11T09:00:00Z “I thought, ‘I’m too middle class for this.’” Home Is Anywhere Jeremy Irons Drapes His Scarf 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Dystopia is a classic of genre fiction, but Davies’ approach differs because the Lyons family is utterly average and middle class — or at best, upper middle class. The quiet alarm of "Years and Years": A slow slide into dystopia, with cozy family dinners intact 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z “I was just an intern — white and male and middle class to boot,” he confesses. A Tale of Soviet-Era Bucharest Probes the Ties Between Writer and Muse 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z What triggers these young predominantly middle class white men and boys who are privileged in society to commit these acts of mass murder? After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Starting in the 1970s, according to Andersen, a “cultural U-turn” caused the nation to abandon the middle class, instead rewarding corporate interests and capitalist greed. 13 Books to Watch For in August 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z I've got the whole railway telling me I'm not working class enough and I've got you telling me I'm not middle class enough. The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner – review 2012-06-01T07:00:03Z In many ways, my story tracks the rise of the black middle class. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z He said: Our middle class families are under a lot of pressure to change very rapidly economically, and that means they’re also changing culturally. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z So this was a level of wealth that created not only a prosperous African American middle class, but also the services to cater to them: hotels, restaurants, furriers, jewelry stores, professional offices. ‘Our history has been so consciously suppressed,’ says historian John Whittington Franklin on America’s relationship with Black history 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Shaikh, an orphan who subsists on a few pieces of fruit at lunch and an inexhaustible supply of positive thinking, represents the striving of poorer Indians scrambling toward the middle class. Movie Review: ‘The Lunchbox,’ With Irrfan Khan: Mumbai Mix-Up 2014-02-27T16:27:45Z They also wasted no time in rejecting Obama's basic premise about the conflicting interests of the middle class and America's wealthiest citizens. Obama delivers confrontational address 2012-01-25T03:23:00Z This influence has bought corporations and the rich a rigged tax code that has redistributed wealth from the middle class to the rich over the course of the past three decades. Global rankings study: America in warp-speed decline 2014-04-09T12:15:00Z At least in my experience, fees and fines are part of your sentence, so for someone like me, middle class, those fees and fines were not onerous to pay. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z Rooted in solid middle class values, these marriages are inherently modern, informed by urban influences. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Couples Fuel India's Vibrant Art Scene 2011-10-13T11:00:13Z The Martins considered themselves middle class, living comfortably in a four-bedroom, three-story frame house in an integrated neighborhood, with an Italian family on one side and an African American family on the other. Billy Martin: Washington’s go-to lawyer when you’re in trouble. Real trouble. 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Brazen fraud in the parliamentary vote unexpectedly energized the middle class, which for years had been politically apathetic. Gorbachev to Putin: Leave power peacefully 2011-12-24T17:27:00Z What we found surprised us: Poor people were actually less likely to eat fast food — and do so less frequently — than those in the middle class, and only a little more likely than the rich. Do poor people eat more junk food than wealthier Americans? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z But there is really no middle class in this movie. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z Most of the rest went to a growing middle class – whose members fueled the greatest economic boom in the history of the world. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z As with the economy in general, a flourishing, diverse middle class should be the sign of a healthy film economy. Do ‘middle-class’ movies have a future in corporate Hollywood? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Internet Culture How the Internet is destroying the middle class Apropos of nothing except the subject's brilliance, I strongly urge you to read this truly epic interview with Jaron Lanier at Edge. How the Internet is destroying the middle class 2011-08-31T13:32:00Z They are vital to the future of the middle class. First Person: Why Department Stores Are Vital – First Person 2012-11-23T22:09:35Z “I wish we could go back to that economy where the middle class wasn’t hollowed out,” I told his viewers. What It Was Like Being a Left-Wing Pundit on “The O’Reilly Factor” 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z And while the middle class is expanding, times are hard for most Vietnamese, adding to Starbucks' challenges. Starbucks seeks to expand in cafe-clogged Vietnam 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z That saying no to a child of the middle class is very easy because you just say, “We can’t.” Festival of Books: Malcolm Gladwell discusses fame, writing and three strikes 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z She is particularly interested in young urban Chinese who seek to cement their arrival in the middle class through the purchase of an apartment. ‘Age of Ambition’ and ‘Leftover Women’ Gauge Social Upheaval 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z The middle class almost doesn't exist in Mexico. In the thrilling "Workforce," an exploited construction worker takes the ultimate revenge 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But at that time the middle classes still felt they had the right to impose their values on everyone else, which resulted in conflict. Spirit of the underground: the 60s rebel 2011-01-30T22:29:01Z The middle class independent business person is being squeezed out of New York City. Is New York Too Expensive for Restaurateurs? We Do the Math 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z A stark divide has persisted between the growing urban middle class and an underclass with mostly nomadic roots. Fast and furious 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Tonight, we meet the people who, then as now, were England's most defining, most anguished stratum: the middle class. TV highlights 14/06/2013 2013-06-14T06:28:43Z ABC, the first home of "Last Man Standing," is corralling its sitcoms to one night, and all of them feature families that are working class or solidly middle class. "Last Man Standing" bids farewell, while Tim Allen keeps on truckin' with his right-wing shade 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Pent-up anger among peasants and industrial workers, and an impatient middle class, meant that reform and repression alike risked a social explosion. Blindly over the brink 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The guiding principle for a different economic path is making the middle class the engine of the economy. Can schools fix our economy? 2012-08-05T12:00:00Z Set in a complex of new, high-rise apartments, we see members of China’s burgeoning middle class ensconced in the comforts of cool, streamlined modern living. The recession and its discontents in films by Cao Fei at the Mistake Room 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z But there’s a modern American tradition of making the rich seem more middle class by taking luxuries and turning them into necessities, even as conservatives take poor people’s necessities and turn them into luxuries. It’s hard to be rich: Woe to the hypothetical $500,000 earners struggling to save $7,000 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Did you grow up poor, working class, middle class or wealthy? Working class. 30 Under 30: Eight Questions With DJ Mustard 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z And, thrusting and parrying, they realize Bernard’s plan of buying, renovating and renting homes in white areas to the city’s growing black middle class. ‘The Banker’ Review: Wheeling and Dealing Toward Equality 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Pupils here were not the sons of gentry but of the middle classes, and showed themselves full of the same stout qualities as their betters. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z Gently and Evan are from different economic classes; he's from a snobby, upper middle class family, she's from working class stock. Romancing the music: "High Fidelity" and "Cherish the Day" find affection in their art 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Margaret Drabble, who wrote Bennett's biography, believes upper middle class snobbery at a lower class provincial writer was part of it. In celebration of the 'unknown' Arnold Bennett 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z They are, in any case, a parade of grotesques drawn equally from children’s book archetypes and media-fed caricatures of the American middle class. Movie Review: ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green,’ Starring Jennifer Garner 2012-08-14T22:10:05Z These gains would help mainly writers and actors who once made a living that qualified them as middle class, so if you're worried about how Tom Cruise will manage these difficult days, don't. Look to the Logan Roys to understand who's causing the Hollywood "double strike" 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z “I think of the others as more middle class in their dispositions, more good citizens on some level, but he’s a real mystic wanderer.” Oregon Frontier, From Under a Bonnet 2011-04-01T20:53:01Z In 2015, the middle class ceased to be the country’s economic majority, representing a shift of historic proportions. The science of white working class pain: Trump’s appeal is rooted in the body as well as the mind 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z China's emerging middle class is showing a newfound enthusiasm for cinema. IMAX to open 75 more theaters in China 2011-03-24T11:32:16Z It's a comedy that can fall flat as a pancake but is here richly studded with comic gems about the rising Elizabethan middle class. This week's new theatre 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z Businesses fled, as did much of the black middle class, leaving behind those with no resources to go. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Observers say much of it stems from its portrayal of a time when the middle class could live comfortably and security was provided, even if it was through the might of a politically repressive regime. Oscar contender Roma stirs up nostalgia and guilt in Mexico’s middle class 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z And yet, when the Obamas moved into the White House, the country’s economy was already in free fall, and its fragile black middle class was, to put it simply, vanishing. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z The prints document the aspirations of an incipient black middle class. The Eerie Anonymity of a Show of African-American Portraiture at the Met 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “The black middle class is disappearing,” Tavis Smiley told me earlier this year. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z “CNN debate summarized: Why does your health care plan screw the middle class? Why are you taking health care from hard working Americans? Why are you for open borders?” he wrote. Perspective | The debate format is an embarrassment. Here’s how to make it better. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z This “Yerma” takes place in a London of a willfully progressive, deracinated middle class, which long ago discarded traditional notions of family. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z A growing middle class with limited access to bookstores and even less idea of what to read rushed to sign up for Scherman’s new club. Review | What do women want? One company is betting it comes between two covers. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z These could be people we all know, a family with strong bonds, small subterranean resentments and the kind of troubles tearing at the fabric of the American middle class — which is to say money problems. Review: ‘The Humans,’ a Family Thanksgiving for a Fearful Middle Class 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z The NBC series “The Slap,” a sardonic look at middle class mores, is one. Review: In ‘Battle Creek,’ the F.B.I. Sets Up Shop With the Police 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z They are also more indicative of the middle class complacency that often inhibits societal transformation, and plays into the devilish hands of the Republican Party. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The racist white mothers think about Peggy: “She was so delightful and approachable! A natural ambassador of the newly ascendant educated black middle class.” Review: In Nell Zink’s ‘Mislaid,’ a Lesbian on the Run Masquerades as Black 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The erosion of the middle class started in earnest. "Stranger Things" and the frustrations of nostalgia 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Yet he nibbles the hands of the middle classes, who are mostly on his side. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z “Imagine growing up middle class or even poor and then amassing millions,” Ms. Streaks said. Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z This progressive turn is simultaneously a product of and a response to the changing mores of the urban middle class, which has developed a more tolerant view than other segments of society. Gay-Themed Movies in India Fight Back Against Taboos 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The casualties include the middle class and our country’s once unbending belief in the future. “The Unwinding”: the corrosive currents of recent U.S. history 2013-06-05T21:00:08Z There are many more black immigrants who find a way, like many other immigrants, to enter America’s middle class as teachers, nurses, doctors, lawyers, journalists, non-profit managers and small business owners. Triple consciousness: To be black and an immigrant in America 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Nearly one in five blacks work in government, historically a reliable entrée into the middle class. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z Franzen is seen by many as the great chronicler of the American middle classes following the success of his 2001 family drama The Corrections. Franzen set to publish fifth novel 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The reason this becomes problematic for the middle classes is because, as Perry points out, they are acutely self-conscious. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z The politcal radicals who lived there were mainly middle class and educated, and for them dignity took on a new meaning as the key element in the fight for equal rights for women. From Greenwich Village to the Nation, Leading the Push for Women’s Rights 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Movies were for the masses but made by elites for the middle class; they were “universal” yet exclusionary. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z These are not just gated communities but evidence of a significant and expanding middle class. Special Report: Fashion: Luxury and Unrest 2011-02-25T19:01:18Z "Pretty middle class, working class. Ethnically more white and Latino, with a smattering of Asians." 'Flower Drum Song' author C.Y. Lee eyes San Gabriel Valley for new stories 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Much of the book looks at the way Internet technology threatens to destroy the middle class by first eroding employment and job security, along with various “levees” that give the economic middle stability. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z The mid-1930s was a time when 75 percent of British families were officially defined as working class, but Thatcher’s family belonged to the 20 percent that could be considered middle class. How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Born and educated in middle class Kansas, London is widely perceived to be the place of her first breakthrough, when she starred as the love interest in Leos Janacek's 2003 version of "Cunning Little Vixen". Vocal acrobatics of "La Donna del Lago" an "Olympic" challenge 2013-05-18T15:11:39Z A black middle class is slowly but surely emerging. Not so black and white: South Africa on stage 2013-07-20T23:06:08Z EAT: If you’re in the shrinking middle class, your earnings after taxes might leave you barely able to do this. Style Invitational Week 1108: Hearts of dorkness — your funny valentine 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Berry was raised middle class, so the white working-class accent was a put-on in two ways. The triumph of Chuck Berry: At 90, the rock pioneer has a new album on the horizon 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z It used to be that those in the middle class were nearly as removed from the struggles of the lower class. The class war is a one-sided fight — and the very rich are winning 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z “In the 1960s, many more Hong Kong women started to do professional work in offices, and those who were from the middle class and upper class wore qipao to work,” Mr. Cheung added. History of a Dress, Chinese Style 2010-08-30T12:10:00Z They were frustrated that Smith never seemed to understand what could be gained by attacking the trade unions, thus showing the middle classes that he was on their side. What if John Smith had lived? 2011-04-07T20:00:15Z Let the case rest and suggest art exhibitions are an area reserved for the white middle class? The arts need diversity schemes 2010-08-16T17:00:00Z It's kinda like India where there's an upper class and a poverty class and no middle class. Academy Awards: season's splits pave way for the Mr Potato Head Oscars 2013-01-30T18:10:01Z "What will happen when the middle class is entirely gone?" he asks. 'Detropia': a nightmarish look at once-great Detroit 2012-10-18T20:15:06Z As a consequence, Freeman grew up middle class, living in Sacramento as a youth. John Freeman, the editor behind lauded literary journal Freeman's 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z White country music was stigmatized early on as “hillbilly music” so the industry started pushing it toward the rising white middle class as a way to make the genre more respected and hugely profitable. Country music reckons with racial stereotypes and its future 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Israel originally met with literary agent David Kuhn to pitch a book on America’s middle class. Rep. Steve Israel, finding the funny in Washington’s corridors of power 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z At one point there is a funny sad litany of whiny, middle class, discontent: "My only friend is my diary." Teenage Riot 2010-08-19T20:31:00Z Charlie on the other hand, while not especially wealthy, is solidly middle class and well educated, the son of a prominent tenants’-rights lawyer. T Magazine: Friday Night Fights 2011-02-08T22:01:19Z With a per-capita income of $18,000 a year, higher than that of many Latin American cities, the city has an expanding middle class and claims the 30th largest world economy. My Mexico City Is Everyone’s Now 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z The prosecutors were complacent: they would have the judge on their side, and a jury comprised of people of property, predominantly male, middle aged, middle minded and middle class. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z Whatever consensus politics existed in the 1950s, Boyle sets out to contextualize it in terms of the interests belonging to a particular postwar demographic — the rapidly growing middle classes. Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z In fact, the implosion of the U.S. manufacturing and auto industries explains much of Detroit’s black middle class’ decline. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z There is currently no habit or possibility among the middle class to purchase art, and so many exhibitions that are very well done, pass without commercial result. A Russian Art Dealer Sets Sights on London 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z You moved from basically no class to working class to middle class. Henry Louis Gates on Trump: “That election clearly represented a backlash against the progress black people have made since 1965″ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z If current trends persist, soon, barely 40 percent of African-Americans will be considered “middle class,” and by 2042, the average black family will earn only 61 cents for every dollar earned by whites. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z The passage of 50 years has obliterated any appealing period details in the architecture, although the inhabitants are of the same slightly bohemian, aspiring middle classes. | 'The Hallway Trilogy': Love Thy Neighbor? Yeah, Right 2011-02-25T03:00:00Z American death practices evolved because of the Industrial Revolution, the growing middle class, the Civil War and even the model of grief provided by Queen Victoria. Exhibition review: 'Dead' at White River Valley Museum 2011-08-26T23:54:15Z More concerning is how most of her interviewees seem like younger versions of herself: white, well educated and upper middle class. Great sexpectations: Peggy Orenstein's 'Girls & Sex' explores the thorny politics of teen sexuality 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z And if you're middle class, you can at least imagine it. Q&A: Mystery Writer Walter Mosley 2010-03-25T09:40:00Z Palestinian Christians belong mainly to the aspiring middle classes and are highly educated. Pope to visit a land of disappearing Christians 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z A few days later, my boyfriend and I made our way back there and found that the people were Uzbek migrant workers, constructing elaborate mausoleums for the new oil-rich middle class. Chloe Dewe Mathews's best photograph – Uzbek migrant workers 2013-06-12T18:30:01Z It is intent on speedily and relentlessly extracting the maximum wealth from that carcass, impoverishing our former working middle class. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z Because race and class are critical lenses through which to view the events that unfold, it is necessary to note that Valerie is black and middle class. Review | ‘A Good Neighborhood’ delves into the thorny territory of race, class and prejudice 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z It is rendered here as an inevitable dimension of American life when you are a man approaching 50 who has managed to ascend merely to the middle class. Critic?s Notebook: Troubles That Ring True for Women of a Certain Age 2010-12-26T21:43:21Z In a 2007 essay titled “The Missing White Girl Syndrome,” my colleague Sarah Stillman described how certain victims—typically white, upper middle class, and beautiful—become “worthy” of public fascination. The Very American Killing of Nia Wilson 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The villain of modern life was the middle class. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z In 'Contagion' his character needed to be resolutely middle class. Steven Soderbergh talks "Contagion" and retirement 2011-09-05T17:23:03Z Sure, “Serial” helped expose an entire segment of middle class liberal basics to the world of podcasts, but contrary to popular belief — and the appearance of your Twitter feed — that’s not the entire world. Obama shines on “WTF”: Maron’s intimate podcast could be a game-changer for American politics 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The habitat has disappeared – the audience, which is to say, the middle class, is gone. David Mamet and the battle for Broadway 2010-04-11T20:30:00Z Many of the pictures show a successful - and happy - black middle class. Pa. exhibit showcases legendary black photographer 2011-11-27T22:31:04Z Taylor Mac’s “Hir,” seen last fall at Playwrights Horizons, while not expressly a play about the decline of the middle class, nevertheless tackles the subject in a sidelong manner. Onstage, the Pain Behind the Political Posturing 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z You say early in the book, “As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive only if we destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, photographers.” Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z It’s that as people become more middle class, they become less interested in using words like “Fabulaxer.” Artist Theaster Gates on W.E.B. DuBois and what Donald Trump doesn't get about Chicago 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Right now we are squeezing the middle class out of Hollywood and only allowing the $70m-plus films or the $10m-minus films. Academy Awards: season's splits pave way for the Mr Potato Head Oscars 2013-01-30T18:10:01Z We have learned not to try too hard to be middle class. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Cline is an astute observer of the social rhythms of the upper middle class, particularly of those in the entertainment and creative industries. Emma Cline Knows First World Problems 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z But when it came to signing on to fight in a socialist revolution, being one of the ‘we of the sinking middle class’ suited him best. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z The numbers of expensive imported models on the roads is also rising as a new middle class emerges. Wider image: Life after death for the 'Love Bug' in Ethiopia 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z GI Bill created the middle class in a racially discriminatory way. An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The Cleavers represented the classic white middle class family of the Eisenhower era, while Eddie represented danger in a ’50s kind of way — he chewed gum and wore a jean jacket. Ken Osmond, the Troublemaker Eddie Haskell on ‘Beaver’, Dies at 76 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Politicians pander to a mythic middle class in their stump speeches. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z My immediate thoughts are to look at who is committing these mass murders, and in virtually every case, it's a middle class white man. After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Airline emissions account for only 2% of the global carbon spew but are rising rapidly as the growing middle class in China, India and other Asian nations take to the skies. Jet Green 2011-07-20T22:00:00Z Imbued with civility from his parents, he saw Pittsburgh as a humming city of entrepreneurship and philanthropy serving the middle class. Perspective | David McCullough helped America understand itself 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Its members, mostly white and middle class like many of the nineteenth- century reformers, focused intently on tolerance, natural living, and individual rights. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z Anything implying snobbery was swept aside by a growing middle class, the youth counterculture, and a surging progressive tide. Blame it on the baby boomers: Yes, pretty much everything 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Despite an increasingly command performance as an upstanding member of the bourgeoisie, Cheever couldn't shake the sense of being essentially an impostor among the middle classes. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z I'd written about all these nice middle class people walking around killing each other! Top 10 tips for being a best-selling author 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Leaving the flowery suburbs of the middle classes for the crucible of downtown Nairobi is like crossing a DMZ into some war-torn neighbor. In Nairobi, a feeling of otherness in a place he considers almost like home Then, much of Edinburgh's arts intake was made up of the Oxbridge rejects of the English upper middle classes. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z “We want to go into countries where there is a middle class and where we see some immediate potential.” Special Report: Fashion: Luxury and Unrest 2011-02-25T19:01:18Z While Japanese designers continue to take aim at China and its huge market, many are also turning to the rest of the vast Asian continent with its growing middle class, in particular Indonesia and Singapore. 'Cool Japan' struts the runways at Fashion Week in Tokyo 2013-10-18T03:44:53Z “What’s funny is we preemptively wrote a song about the Occupy movement, ‘Disparity by Design,’ about income disparity, about the bootstrap myth and the end of the middle class. Rise Against protests against lack of protest songs 2012-01-24T14:21:00Z It encouraged a sportier, more casual lifestyle for a middle class newly freed from decades of deprivation. Blame it on the baby boomers: Yes, pretty much everything 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Stories focusing on the working classes were too often depressing, according to over half the general population, with one in three believing the portrayal of the middle class is too "sweet". Women, gay and black people still shown as stereotypes in film, says study 2011-03-18T20:26:54Z And while I wouldn’t exactly say I want "a rich lady mouth," I absolutely know that I have always dreamed of a middle class one. "You want a rich lady mouth": Could fixing my teeth fix my life? 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z And let’s be clear: far from being a peripheral aspect of Romney’s plan, reducing health costs for the middle class was the central political argument Romney deployed in its favor. Romneycare Official: 'I Would Never' Try to Reduce Health Costs 2011-10-27T18:20:39Z “President Trump,” he introduced the segment, “intends to restore and revive the fate and fortunes of not only our middle class but all Americans who aspire to it.” President Trump Finds His TV Niche in Softball Interviews 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z That allowed the wealthier, middle class to just opt out. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z Ghosh directed about 20 feature films in the Bengali language, mostly dealing with the dilemmas of India's urban middle class. Award-winning Indian director Ghosh dies at 49 2013-05-30T15:28:09Z This may be a difficult fact to process for those of us who grew up in the sanitized bubble of the suburban middle class, but it is undeniable. Lawyers and Secondary Traumatic Stress, or: On the dispersal of brain matter in a Kentucky trailer 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Manuel’s family is rooted in the Spanish peasantry and lower middle class, a largely anonymous world of “barns, poverty, stink, alienation, disease, catastrophe.” ‘Ordesa’ Is a Meditation on Yearning, Solitude and Family 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Among his fans are city businessmen who see universal suffrage as a way of bringing a share of political influence to a middle class whose economic influence is growing. ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Audiences became more docile as the middle classes learned to revere culture and to regard theatergoing as a quasi-religious rite. Spectators Walk Out of a Show for Many Reasons 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z I mean, one of the issues is that in a market society, a middle class has always required some little artificial help to keep going. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z A somewhat supercilious satire on the property-owning middle classes that Loach later admitted he was the wrong director for: a little bit Fassbinder, a little bit Gurney Slade. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Deptford High Street was red – "middle class, well-to-do" – with a few pink islands round it, in the middle of a blue-black sea. TV review: The Secret History Of Our Streets: Deptford; EastEnders 2012-06-06T21:00:01Z We are not talking about nepotism, which is only the harmless expression of the desire of the "squeezed" middle classes to give their friends' children a leg-up. Is nepotism ever acceptable? 2011-04-09T23:05:55Z What that seems to mean, mostly, is that they are white and middle class, entitled to the benefit of every doubt even when they are showing their cruel, selfish or stupid sides. Review: In ‘American Animals,’ These Guys Didn’t Visit the Library to Study 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Another sign is the film’s rapid loss of interest in a pertinent subject: the devastating impact of the unemployment crisis on the middle class. | 'Larry Crowne': Stymied in Middle Age, Reaching for a New Life 2011-06-30T21:30:07Z At the same time, other cities are becoming unaffordable even for the middle class. Only democratic schools will save us 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z This was the headquarters for a five-and-dime company that, a century ago, was the symbol of American dynamism and of the emerging middle class when anything seemed possible in the country. Brooklyn Bridge, Star of the City: Here’s a Tour 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z And as the wheels turned, it spoke to the social aspirations, dignity and self-confidence of a rising black middle class. Review | When black models walking the runway was about more than just the clothes 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Yes, the kids in her books were White, suburban and middle class, but their struggles were universal: sibling rivalry, school bullying, worries about their parents. Perspective | Beverly Cleary, through Ramona, captured the essence of childhood 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z His mother is Greek, and he grew up in the commuter town of Reading, in an affluent middle class suburb “lacking any kind of cultural hub.” Welcome to Peter Strickland’s Worlds 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z To appropriately treat addiction, we need to recognize the racism that has marred our drug policy—and also see that while addiction does hit the poor the hardest, the middle class isn’t exactly immune. Getting prescription meds right 2013-02-18T16:00:00Z And I liked being around her, and I felt a similarity to her, in that I am a very accomplished legal scholar and have spent my life crusading for the middle class. Kate McKinnon on ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘S.N.L.’ and Hillary Clinton 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z That we needed to set marriage equality aside for the sake of winning the “bigger picture” battles – -to get the troops back from Iraq, to save the American middle class, to stop global warming. Outrage culture changed the world: “PC” critics are wrong — marriage equality happened because activists used shame and rage 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z However, Romney was undermined by his own heelish tendencies, his patrician attitude and disconnectedness from the middle class experience, not to mention his actual record in private equity. Donald Trump, professional wrestler: How the billionaire body-slammed GOP politics using a very peculiar playbook 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Newspaper reports from across the country tell us that heroin use is skyrocketing among middle class, suburban teens. Teen heroin use on the rise 2012-08-31T15:24:00Z They’re issues, of course, that increasingly face the broader middle class in the developed world as well. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z The average American wage peaked in 1973, and the middle class was broader. Review: The 2017 Class Divide in a New ‘One Day at a Time’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Second, does the proscenium arch really represent the triumph of the middle classes? What's so wrong with proscenium arch theatre? 2010-07-19T11:36:00Z The usual suspects got plenty of mentions: families, middle class, American dream. Do Democrats hate cities? 2012-09-08T17:00:00Z Would there be a negative reaction to its being so unashamedly middle class in setting and attitude? Looking back at the Lost Booker: Nina Bawden 2010-04-09T11:47:00Z And the centerpiece, “A Month in the Country,” is a suspenseful tragicomic story about love and jealousy among vividly characterized individuals of the 19th-century leisured middle class. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z Every year the numbers grow as new middle classes emerge, especially in Asia and Eastern Europe. European Museums Straining Under Weight of Popularity 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z And anyway, at what point did being middle class become a problem? Confessions of a Hay virgin 2010-06-01T06:59:00Z Based on a play and set in real time in a single apartment, Carnage is a stinging critique of middle class mores, but also has plenty of humor including Winslet's memorable projectile vomit scene. Highbrow trumps Hollywood at Venice film festival 2011-09-11T08:47:48Z "The British middle class is obsessed by what they call bad language," said Loach with avuncular exasperation. Loach in Cannes with spirited 'The Angels' Share' 2012-05-22T15:44:09Z There are people who think they are middle class, but it's a fantasy, an appearance. In the thrilling "Workforce," an exploited construction worker takes the ultimate revenge 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Barnes sets his tale in its twilight, among what he calls “furrow-dwellers,” the torpid English middle classes, but he refrains from deriving much comedy from it. He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z This dynamic helped create a global middle class. The new wave 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Solution: Kick Start told The Atlantic that, since 1991, their pumps have lifted 667,000 people out of poverty, helping to "create an entrepreneurial middle class, starting with the family farm". Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent 2012-08-25T23:05:54Z The film drew middle class audiences to the cinema and helped lay the foundations of today's hardcore adult entertainment industry. Deep Throat case dismissed by judge 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z And here’s the funny part: Most of us agree we’ve got a crisis, but the people backing up the middle class these days are not the ones you’d expect. Who’s speaking up for the shrinking middle class? Not who you’d expect 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The greatest revelation he mentions is that "ownership" is at the heart of what it means to be middle class – and that property can be a sedative. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z Some are even on the verge of pole-vaulting into the middle class, though, as Boo notes, "for every two people in Annawadi inching up, there was one in a catastrophic plunge". Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-22T10:00:01Z But the novelist admits his upbringing was middle class. On the trail of Alan Sillitoe's angry young man 2011-08-15T20:30:03Z It drew middle class audiences to the cinema and became a forerunner of today's hardcore adult entertainment industry. Seyfried: 'Films should discuss sex' 2013-08-13T05:54:04Z At stake were the constricted dreams of three characters in recessionary America and the moral choices being delicately negotiated as the door to the middle class threatens to slam shut on them permanently. A new, fearless generation makes this a revolutionary moment in American playwriting 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z If you watch a lot of cable news, you’ve seen Robert Reich, secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, presenting his theory that civilizations are largely supported by the vitality of the middle class. SIFF week 3: 10 movies to see 2013-05-30T18:12:29Z He considers her victory was not simply a "peasants' revolt" of middle class activists. Margaret Thatcher biography reveals passions across the years 2013-04-21T19:41:48Z In the 1730s, as Handel’s London audiences gradually broadened into the middle class from the aristocracy, they lost much of their interest in his Italian-language operas, which had thrilled the cognoscenti for years. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z “In the old days, one of the ways you showed your distinction from the middle class was that you didn’t hustle,” he added. Edith Wharton?s World, Recast for ?Gossip Girl? 2011-03-02T22:22:52Z Entertainment and sports are big potential growth areas in China, tapping into demand from China's rising middle class. China's CMC in tie-up with Hollywood talent agency CAA 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z But I don't really hear, "We've checked our quota for white middle class authors from Brooklyn." Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Photograph: Corbis Charles Dickens has been identified as the author of a previously unattributed article which attacks the middle classes for patronising the "working man". Charles Dickens identified as author of mystery article 2012-06-25T14:14:38Z White Americans tend to celebrate the show as evidence that African-Americans can succeed in middle class life, Feagin said. Ask an Ethicist: Can I Still Watch The Cosby Show? 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z “Whiskey sipping, wanna drink the whole bottle/But these smart middle class black kids need a role model,” he rapped on the indignant “Not Going Back,” a compelling peek into the underbelly of celebrity. Music Review: Comedian Who Raps, or Rapper? 2011-05-15T22:06:42Z The movie takes place in a Chicago that might as well be a studio lot, with generically attractive houses that look middle class only by Hollywood standards. Review: The Kids Are All Right in ‘Blockers.’ The Parents Are Dopes. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The specter of the privileged preening among poverty no longer seems to haunt a country with a fast-growing middle class, although the disparity between rich and poor is still evident. IHT Luxury Conference: Brazil and the Fashionable Life 2011-11-09T12:11:45Z Once their middle classes really start to blossom, the developing world’s car-buying frenzy will be spectacular, and a true carmageddon for its cities, which seem thoroughly unprepared. Carmeggedon is coming! 2012-08-23T15:35:00Z Today, surely, the German middle class is more cultured, better educated and more politically aware than its British counterpart. I predict a riot 2011-03-05T00:07:24Z When it comes to director demographics, the worrying issue isn't age so much as the continued dominance of men and the white middle classes. Is theatre ageist? 2013-02-13T15:44:00Z The homeless, referred to as “the tramp class” in a blunter era, vexed the middle class just as they do now. America’s Most Famous Street 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z There is a lovely bit of business when the old bloke's smoking, swearing robustness invades the life-phobic space of the liberal middle class. Men From the Boys by Tony Parsons 2010-05-08T23:10:00Z It’s just a good school for middle class people. Even my alma mater doesn’t love Cosby any more 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z "The true regret I have is that the cities of Flint and Detroit, which are at the center of my film, are now in much worse shape -- as is the American middle class in general." 'Mary Poppins' among 25 U.S. films to be preserved 2013-12-18T14:01:43Z But I see many white brothers and sisters, especially the so-called "middle class," who seem to be unable to navigate this moment of challenge and death. W. Kamau Bell on Kamala Harris, Black conservatives & why he's happy Herman Cain is ghost-tweeting 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z More than 80 percent of India’s 1.3 billion people are Hindus, many of them deeply religious despite an increasingly Westernized middle class. Millions expected to throng Indian city for world's largest... 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z “Really, I’ve only been striving to get to the middle class all these years.” Deborah Kass’s ‘Before and Happily Ever After’ Retrospective 2012-10-28T16:28:43Z The post Civil Rights era saw a ballooning Black middle class that became distant from the Black poor. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z I couldn't see in the audience anyone who wasn't like myself - white, metropolitan and middle class” The arts, she said, were in danger of becoming "the prerogative of a metropolitan elite". Harman: Arts need to be 'less elite' 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z What is interesting in the storytelling of the South Asian experience, often there is an emphasis is in middle class, and the working-class experience doesn't get seen. Ravi Kapoor on his comedy "Four Samosas": "I always wanted to make a lo-fi heist movie" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Cities expanded, owing to the benefits of industrialization, and the emerging middle class gained the means to emphasize cleanliness and sanitation in response to the grime of urban life. Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Related: Why working-class actors are a disappearing breed I did this story recently about how the acting profession in Britain has become very middle class. Michael Moore: ‘Trump inspires his side. It’s like Munich in 1932’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z The middle classes of America and Europe look at the future and they don't see any answers and they don't see very much hope. 2010-01-30T03:25:00Z Wade believes Cooke's instinct about the middle classes and "untapped drama" was spot on. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z Moreover, the vast majority of scare stories also involve the spread of the drug into the middle class. Getting prescription meds right 2013-02-18T16:00:00Z Too often, its contents look distressingly appropriate for a city with a shrinking middle class, whose architectural fabric is being ruined by a flood of new condos for rich people who don’t actually live here. ‘NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial’ Has About 100 Contributors 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z When the middle classes are at work in the education system, the playing field seldom remains level. TV review: Spooks and Unequal Opportunities 2010-09-21T06:00:00Z Still, the GameStonk incident was the only incident in recent memory in which oligarchs suffered some kind of retaliation for destroying the planet and the middle class. Why the left loves Martin Scorsese movies – especially right now 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z He's a reminder of the privileged white middle classes, happy to buy into a bit of ghetto realism, but slow when it comes to realising social change as well as quick to decry bling. Artist of the week 107: David Blandy 2010-09-29T15:01:00Z The middle class was basically created through federal policy that was then distributed in a discriminatory way because of local control. An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z He wanted to help the “lower and middle class that are normally completely zoned out of the legal business” and provide law assistance they could afford. On Love: Rose Overbey and Peter Silva She told the interviewer that while she is aware of the English novel’s origins as a bourgeois 19th-century entertainment for the upper middle classes, it has a role to play in contemporary culture. Review | Sally Rooney’s latest novel is a lucid, nuanced story about coming of age in a broken world 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Yugoslavia was a discursive universe, if you will, wherein the largest object was its freshly minted socialist middle class. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Through archival footage and vivid narration, Sheldon notes how the discovery of the precious black rock led to an economic boom that inspired a vibrant middle class in the 20th century, born from labor struggle. ‘King Coal’ Review: Heavy Is the Crown 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z But it's a very compelling argument that people have put forward and the growing middle classes confused all those boundaries. ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Damian Lewis on 'Homeland' and 'The Forsyte Saga' 2012-09-21T18:30:54Z A culture of manners emerged, as the upwardly mobile middle classes approximated aristocratic values by appearing uninterested in money – superficially, at least. The wealth gap: How changing fortunes tear close friends apart 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Their success is evidence of a growing Cuban middle class with disposable income. Cuban entrepreneurs take a bigger slice of profits thanks to reforms 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Large employers, the Catholic Church, the Chicago Democratic machine and the federal government all contributed to building a middle class. The Forces That Are Killing the American Dream 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z That middle class was precisely the patch in which Hollywood used to grow its prize marrows – its Driving Miss Daisies and Dances with Wolves. The Oscars: Who calls the shots? 2011-02-24T21:45:00Z Schrafft’s, a Northeastern chain, started as a candy store, but in the 1910s transformed itself into a lunch counter and restaurant for women and the expanding middle class. The Magnificent 10: Restaurants That Changed How We Eat 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z “It’s for the people that are well off, it’s for the poorer folks, it’s for the middle class.” In an East Boston Shipyard, a Watershed Idea for Art 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The upwardly mobiles are moving in and bringing in middle class values, which don't work in a working class community. 76 minutes with … John Lydon 2012-05-31T20:30:00Z The family of four from Beijing includes a grandmother, a teenage son and two working parents on the cusp of the upper middle class. Burke show is a feast of global eating habits 2012-02-01T22:04:04Z A hazard of growing up black and middle class is the misguided belief that money and education will provide refuge from discrimination. Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z A city of contrasts, Lagos is home to a minority of wealthy elites, a growing middle class and an overwhelming majority of people just trying to get by. Tradition meets modernity at Nigeria fashion show 2011-03-13T16:16:04Z It’s still a very poor country, but there is a far bigger middle class now, and I think it’s largely because of tourism. Charting Change in Madagascar 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z For the middle classes, there are only six available professions: investment banking, accountancy, civil service, journalism, teaching and law. Legal novel Joy is beautifully written and a real page-turner 2012-06-07T15:34:51Z So it was at settlement houses across America helped lift the children of immigrants into the middle class and beyond through time-tested means: recreation, education—and competition. Where Leonard Nimoy Learned His Craft--And What We Can Learn, Too 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z But the offshore market is expanding, nearly exploding, as giant populations in India, China and elsewhere join the middle class and discover the burly joys of the popular art form Hollywood created and still dominates. Summer Box Office Wrap: The Help Still Works on Labor Day 2011-09-05T09:55:00Z The Thatchers were comfortable middle class rather than rich and Margaret did kindnesses to the struggling divorcee who lived next door, as both biographers confirm she often did for individuals she knew. Margaret Thatcher biography reveals passions across the years 2013-04-21T19:41:48Z If “José” was set in Mexico City or New York City, it would be a coming out struggle for someone middle class. Li Cheng on making "José," an epic gay love story set in Guatemala 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Even though Tashi is, by Nepali standards, middle class, he took the chance that he might find work in the United States at a restaurant or grocery store. New in town: Nepalis join the Latin trek to America 2012-07-31T18:38:00Z This seemed relevant, given the economic circumstances surrounding the normcore trend—the One Percent, the Financial Crisis, the withering of the middle class, and all that. Hipsters, they’re just like us! “Normcore,” Sarah Palin, and the GOP’s big red state lie 2014-04-27T11:00:00Z Though they had been middle class in Damascus, they struggled to find work in America. How Six Different Cooks Set Striking Thanksgiving Tables 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Stability is the biggest gift that you get when you enter the middle class. “Daddy Don’t Go” smashes stereotypes of disadvantaged “deadbeat” dads: “Stability is the biggest gift that you get when you enter the middle class” 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z During his three decades in office the country’s economy has tanked: agricultural production has plummeted, unemployment and food shortages have multiplied, inflation has soared, and much of the country’s middle class has fled. Books of The Times: Where Dissidents Are the Prey, and Horror Is a Weapon 2011-05-23T18:30:27Z Indeed, there was nothing stopping the Democrats, the purported party of the middle class, from enjoying the sweeter One-Percenty parts of life last week. Convention Diary: In a Swirl of Excess, No Guilt Included 2012-09-08T02:16:18Z But then it is also predominantly white and middle class too, and those are issues that urgently need addressing as much as gender imbalances. Lyn Gardner's theatre roundup: Why is theatre so male, white and middle-class? 2012-07-02T14:04:57Z Most of the men in the Casa Susanna community were white people from the middle class that had good jobs and a bit of money, and were married, some with kids. Revisiting a Midcentury Haven for Cross-Dressing Men 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The audience for these courses is mostly heterosexual, white, and middle class. One marriage under god 2013-02-02T20:00:00Z Multiplexes allowed the middle classes to be hived off and catered to exclusively. Grit in the masala: Aarakshan and Bollywood's social conscience 2011-08-25T21:30:01Z It’s the luxury of the middle class to have those kinds of things going on, I think. Kate Beckinsale: ‘Austen’s Lady Susan is like Emma on steroids’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Where are the middle class and the workers who make these buildings possible suppose to live? Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z If you were middle class, you wore a tie and did something extremely dull in an office. TV review: Monroe, The British at Work 2011-03-10T22:05:01Z In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood failed to understand the difference between winning an election and winning total power, so the country’s middle class reluctantly re-embraced authoritarianism. The end of harmony 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z |
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