the underclass.....and 'pulses of the air'.

[Mark Kohut]

Yes. Gunnar sez the Pres, JFK, was one of the few keeping that knowledge ---of unemployment---
alive in nation's consciousness  via some public and policy remarks.
 
The growth of the invisible, the lost, in post WW2 America (among other ways)


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From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: the underclass.....and 'pulses of the air'.

The 1960s was an exceptional decade of persistantly low unemployment;
however, in the 1961 recession, when unemployment hit 7.1 %, this
after a decade of much lower levels, it added to the concern for the
working class poor, and, of course, would be a major target of
Johnson's Great Society.

On 12/30/12, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In economist, sociologist, Gunnar Myrdal's "Challenge to Abundance" of
> 1962-63, he entitles
> a chapter The Under-Class, says the word has not been much used before
> and takes off from Pres Kennedy speaking of growing unemployment
> to write about those sorta 'lost' to the system as the underclass.
>
> W.A.S.T.E. I thought of after The Other America, soon to be published.
>
> Did we know that Henry James, sometime during the time of AtD wrote that
> the chamber of consciousness "converts the very pulses of the air into
> revelations."
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