This 50-something male friend is generous, self-questioning, community-minded, unambitious, spiritually strong and had what he calls a "solid upbringing" with doting parents and dreams of being able to help.
Although criminals might not seem together in terms of career, education, or a solid upbringing, we are certainly aware of our unstable emotions and very open to talking about them.
Too often despite good manners, academic accomplishments, and solid upbringings, many young males of color are experienced as problematic of what is wrong in society and have not been a national priority.
I am from Vicksburg, Mississippi, from a very ordinary although solid suburban upbringing.
It was a solid bourgeois upbringing, but the boy soon showed a rebellious streak.
Add to that a solid Republican upbringing -- Mr. Harrison's father, a draftsman for General Electric, ran two losing Republican campaigns for town supervisor -- and he would seem like a natural Lazio voter.
That's what the book is mostly about.+Before her involvement in Republican politics in Texas, Hughes's life was endearingly unremarkable: a solid Christian upbringing for her and her younger sister as they traveled the road of a military family -- their father, Harold Parfitt, was once the governor of the Panama Canal Zone.
His mother worked in telecoms and his father was a teacher and firefighter: what he describes as a solid middle class upbringing.
Leonard Schleifer had a solid middle-class upbringing in Queens, where he had jobs shoveling show, delivering prescription drugs, bagging groceries and parking cars for a clothing store.
Comedian Simon Day, the creator of characters such as "Competitive Dad" and Tommy Cockles in The Fast Show, had a solid middle-class upbringing, but after his parents divorced he ended up unwelcome at both homes, mostly due to getting hooked on fruit machines and stealing to pay for his habit.
In 2014, in a speech to the investment firms Goldman Sachs and BlackRock, Hillary Clinton described her solid middle-class upbringing and then admitted, "Now, obviously, I'm kind of far removed, because of the life I've lived and the economic, you know, fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy, but I haven't forgotten it".
