Granted, "Empire Falls" is too tangled and populous to be summed up in an aphorism, but it is nonetheless grounded in the New England bedrock of class-bound fatalism.
In a region where union benefits have long been the bedrock of middle-class life, Judge Howard's decision has been a shocking blow.
For much of the last two years, Labour has languished so far behind that it seemed almost out of the race, with byelections such as last summer's Glasgow East contest suggesting that its bedrock of working-class support had cracked, inviting speculation about whether there was any longer any limit at all on the depths to which the party could plunge.
"A lot of the careers and jobs that were the bedrock of white working-class family life for many decades and generations have vanished and have not been well replaced," she said.
But over the years these simple cabins — the bedrock of Chicago working class vacations — began to change.
In Denver, 3,000 people showed up to voice their support, carrying signs that read things like "Cairo-Madison-Denver" and "Unions are the bedrock of the middle class".
Lee was the bedrock of our family.
Manufacturing is the bedrock of the American middle class.
Cheers and clapping almost drowned out Clinton as she spoke about raising the minimum wage, cracking down on large corporations, and how she would "strengthen unions because they are the bedrock of a strong middle class in America".
In any event, many more Britons are "posted" abroad in the EU (some, it seems, working for IREM) than Europeans are in Britain.There are political temptations to be more placatory: the white working class, the bedrock of Labour's electoral coalition, has grown estranged from the party over the past decade.
After decades of organizing, the once-impoverished caregivers have become the bedrock of our city's working class.
