What's more, these works often reflect a tradition of egalitarianism that harks back to the middle-class values of a younger, more tolerant America.
The middle-class values of nonviolence, literacy, long working hours and a willingness to save emerged only recently in human history, Dr. Clark argues.
Their crime appears to have been their failure to be middle class, embracing excess and ostentation rather than traditional middle-class values of thrift and conformism.
If in 2030, these middle-class "values" of overconsumption and waste were to infect half a billion Indians, it would be a disaster for our planet.
In later years, Baraka cast his Beat period, in the nineteen-fifties, as a rejection of the middle-class values of his upbringing and the stale conventions of Negro uplift at Howard, though the luxury of alienation in Greenwich Village was the ultimate expression of that very background.
With their cars and villas and servants, their antiques and their foreign travel, they dispensed with the idea of the artist as unmaterialistic and free; creative prestige was translated into the solidly bourgeois appurtenances of life and the middle-class values of encumbrance.
His mother works hard, demands respect, and appreciates the middle-class values of the white community around her. His father is footloose and fun loving.
These words were strikingly similar to President Clinton's Democratic Leadership Council speech in Cleveland in 1990, when the then-Arkansas governor staked out the "New Democrat" positions emphasizing middle-class values of working hard, playing by the rules and taking individual responsibility.
In the 1690s, the economic and political power balance of the nation tilted from the aristocracy towards the middle class after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and middle-class values of religion, morality, and gender roles became more dominant, not least in attitudes to the stage.
