On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Carl Remick wrote:
> >Some time ago, we discussed the Kerner Commission's conclusion that
> >improving
> >times were a major contributory factor to the urban uprisings of the time.
>
> The idea of the "revolution of rising expecations" was a big preoccupation
> of longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer (mercilessly parodied as "Eric
> Mouth" by the Harvard Lampoon), as I recall.
Which he took from mainstream social science, and which they traced back to Alexis de Tocqueville's _The Ancien Regime_.
Michael __________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com