I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myse...lf as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me deprived was a bad image, I was underprivileged. Then they told me underprivileged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I sure have a great vocabulary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero...; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, l...et's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »