Ruthless Mothers: Money, Values And The Gimme Decade
September, 1981
Each Friday Afternoon During the fall of 1970, just after the invasion of Cambodia and the shootings at Kent State—at a time when only 18 percent of the republic's 9,000,000 college students said that money was important to them—a freshman I'll call Steven Shine would put on a wide tie and take the subway to New York's Pennsylvania Station to pick up women. He would stroll over the terrazzo toward a pretty woman standing in a ticket line near the Long Island Railroad platforms and extract a fat...
