We can only speculate which of the many factors had the greatest impact: middle class angst, rejection of Washington gridlock, anti-Clinton sentiment (both Clintons), populist nationalism, an undercurrent of racism and anti-feminism, etc.
("Ballet," Childs said, when someone asked what the best training ritual is. "Even when people at Judson were carrying around mattresses onstage, they still went to ballet class"). Thus, a rejection of the rejection of beauty.
Through the years, among the legions of students who got the narrow envelope of rejection were class valedictorians, perfect SAT scores, top-flight musicians and passionately committed social activists.
There was something safe and heartwarming about watching the brown paper bag you'd expertly decorated the day before fill up with Rugrats / Power Rangers / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-themed Valentines, containing oh-so-personal messages like "You rock!" and "Cowabunga dude tte)!" Plus, if you did have a childhood crush in your class, there was no chance of rejection.
"I was born to atheism," she writes, "and raised in it, by people who had derived their own atheism from a proud tradition of working-class rejection of authority in all its forms, whether vested in bosses or priests, gods or demons.
However, a former prime minister, François Fillon from the UMP, told Agence France-Presse: "We cannot talk of national unity and exclude several million French people [who vote FN]." France's political class ridiculed the FN's complaints of rejection, saying all were welcome at the demonstration of unity.
In class we discussed that the idea of rejection based on the probability that one will need support later in life stems from the American perception that there are not enough resources for us all with "us" being defined as American born citizens.
A different class of explanation attends to distal, functional consequences of rejection in the face of inequity.
Students and parents are often taken aback by the fallout of rejection associated with, yes, registering for class.
The Gingrich revolution was fueled by anger, a revolt of white working-class Americans against what they perceived as a Democratic bias in favor of blacks and other minorities, and a middle-class rejection of the politics of big government and big deficits.
