IVIV (8): From an Ancient Indian Word Meaning "Serenity"

[alice wellintown]

Monroe sez,

> "the unprecedented stressfulness of life in the sixties and seventies"
> And see, e.g., ...The Political Economy of Social Problems: From the Sixties to the Seventies

An interesting article. The stress, of course, was not equally
applied. The soldier in Vietnam, the Black man, the poor, the
so-called underclass, those living at the bottom of the hill felt the
unprecedented stress of life, while not with unprecedented suffering,
with new and Organized, Rationalized, Force. Of course, as the quote
from de Tocqueville makes clear, the post-war progress caused deprived
persons (of T.H. Marshall "Citizenship"), to demand quicker solutions
and further reliefs.

What has this to do with the Twilight of the Middle Class?

Well it all begins with a B&L

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Er69b4HMl8